recover(1) - Linux man page

Name

recover - recover a deleted file

Synopsis

recover [device] [options]

Options

-h, --help prints help

-a, --all no filtering; dump all deleted inodes

Description

recover recovers a file which matches some ext2 - info about the deleted inode by getting all the deleted inodes and filtering them. It's based upon the Ext2Undeletion-howto by Aaron Crane. Using this utility, your chances to recover a lost file should increase a lot.

Questions About the Deleted File

o Hard disk device name

o Year of deletion

o Month of deletion

o Weekday of deletion

o First/Last possible day of month

o Min/Max possible file size

o Min/Max possible deletion hour

o Min/Max possible deletion minute

o User ID of the deleted file

o A text string the file included (can be ignored)

Bugs

Please send bugs to Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be and include your system configuration.

Warranty

There is no warranty.

See Also

debugfs (8)

Author

Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be)

Website

http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover