[aklug] Re: UNDELETE

Not sure of away to perform a recovery, but you probably should back-up
or image the disk before you move ahead with more serious work on the
drive. I would suggest using gnu ddrescue to create a true image of
whatever may still be on your disk.

--greg

On 3/4/14 1:37 PM, Bill Bouterse wrote:
> Well it finally happened again after 15 years.
>
> A massive undelete occurred from my personal usb-ext 1.5Tb drive
> containing about 15+ years of media archived from different machines
> over the years. I estimate at least 500gb is MIA
>
> I was archiving several directories from a desktop machine with
> PcLinuxOS and
> Dolphin File manager (both of which I rarely use) to the external.
> My normal daily usage distros are usually Ubuntu or KX Studio
> and derivatives or Puppy.
>
> At some point I deleted a couple of non-essential directories, only to
> discover I
> had highlighted basically everything and to compound matters instead of
> "move to trash" it was "delete".
>
> I am leaving the machine on, distro up and running with all apps closed.
>
> the external FS deleted was either ext4 or XFS.
>
> I have read many, many RTFM and searched endlessly. However I know
> once one
> begins to attempt recovery YOU BETTER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
> It happen to me over 15 years ago and with the tools at the time I
> accomplished nothing.
>
> Has anyone had a successful recovery of anything similar.?
>
> WH (Bill) Bouterse
> Now Residing in Juneau
>
>

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