mundelete(1) - Linux man page

Name

mundelete - Tool for undelete files from MsDos/Windows disks

Synopsis

mundelete [-F FAT-size] [-c UNDELETE_CHAR] [-h ] DEVICE [DIRECTORY]

Description

mundelete undeletes files with (possibly) relative data from MsDos/Windows file systems

Options

DEVICE

it is the device to open, given in standard unix format. For example: /dev/fd0

[ DIRECTORY ]

if it is given, mundelete will start the search from it

-F FAT-size

Specifies the type of file allocation tables used (12,16 or 32 bit). If 0 or nothing specified, mundelete will autodetect it, else it will select FAT12

-c UNDELETE_CHAR

Specifies the character used instead of first character of a undeleted entry. If nothing specified mundelete will use 'U'. In vfat file system you don't need this option because mundelete get first character of the deleted file from the relative vfat entry

-r

Walk through the directory tree starting from the indicated directory DIRECTORY, if specified, else from the dot entry in the root dir. For each found directory in the tree undeletes files contained in

-R

Same as -r but also walk through each entry undeleted. That is, it undeletes all on the disk

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