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=About=

Works for  these filesystems:

*Ext 3

*Ext 4



'''It is very important to not recreate a lost file/folder!'''



'''There is not guarantee that these steps will recover your lost data!'''

==Usage==

'''It is very important not to use the hard disk where the data was deleted'''. So in order to achieve this remotely - we will create a partition in RAM:

 mkdir /tmp/recovery
 mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp/recovery -o size=2048m  # <--- PUT here a number how much MB of RAM you would like to dedicate for this new partition
 cd /tmp/recovery 
 wget -c http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/extundelete/extundelete/0.2.0/extundelete-0.2.0.tar.bz2?r=http%3A%2F%2Fextundelete.sourceforge.net%2F&ts=1331044068&use_mirror=freefr
 tar xjvf extundelete-0.2.0.tar.bz2
 cd extundelete-0.2.0
 ./configure
 make
 cd src
 

Now you have to specify what hard disk partition the program should use, for example /dev/sda1 - the exact one you will find with 

 df -h

For example:

 [root@212 tmp]# df -h
 Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      374G  255G  100G  72% /
 /dev/sda1              99M   19M   75M  21% /boot
 tmpfs                  16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
 You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root

Here we will have to use: '''/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00'''

In this example we will try to recover deleted IVR voices:

 ./extundelete /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 --restore-directory /home/mor/public/ivr_voices

The recovered files if everything will be OK will be located in /tmp/recovery/extundelete-0.2.0/src/RECOVERED_FILES

== See also ==
* http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/
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