recover(1)

recover1

Recover a deleted file

Usage

recover [device] [options]

Options

-h, --help prints help

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

Overview

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)

Warranty

There is no warranty.

Website

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

Releases

6 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–7

Bugs

Please note that recover does not work with ext3 filesystems, it is strictly ext2-only. For further information on this, please read /usr/share/doc/recover/README.ext2only

Author

Tom Pycke ([email protected])

From recover 1.3c-11 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.