(note: you might need to adjust the scroll lines of the Terminal to a few thousand to show long lists)Ĥ. list files available for undelete - might need the force option -f Note: ntfsundelete is installed with the package ntfs-3gĢ. My drive was NTFS so I'll show how that works. The deleted files have to be copied to a different partition than the one they were on, and the one recovering from must be unmounted. One thing I need to watch out for is when an external drive is not present and an app needs to access it, say for a DVD project, it will create the partition somewhere locally and carry on! Then inserting the external drive makes another entry with a _ after it in /media -it was when I tried removing the phony local version of the drive that it decided to take out loads of real data with it (but left some), and I still can't understand how because I had already unplugged the drive.įortunately I had just enough space around on different drives to rescue everything. Today I managed to wipe 200Gb of very important data off an external drive.
So if something goes wrong you should make a rescue op immediately. You can "undelete" wiped files from Linux partitions (ext3/ext4) and NTFS -so long as you haven't been using the partition and stored new files over the lost ones. In Linux it's easy (relatively, if you act quickly) to reclaim files that have been wiped from disk -because really they are still there but their names are gone and their inodes have been offered for new files to be stored in their place. This might save your life one day (or the life of some files you removed bypassing the trash!)
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