How to recover deleted files in Ubuntu (with extundelete)

Post date: Jul 16, 2013 5:28:10 PM

1 - For ubuntu install e2fslibs-dev:

sudo apt-get install e2fslibs-dev

2 - Download tool extundelete from:

http://extundelete.sourceforge.net

3 - Uncompress the tar file

4 - Compile program using

sudo ./configure

sudo make

5 (optional) - run “make install” to install the program in the /usr/bin directory

6 - In command-line use:

to check the name of the drive to recover:

sudo fdisk -l

to restore all:

sudo extundelete /dev/sda4 --restore-all

to restore a directory:

sudo extundelete /dev/sda1 --restore-directory /[directory]/

to restore directory after date 10th July 2013 at 10:00:

date -d "Jul 10 10:00" +%s

sudo extundelete /dev/sda1 --restore-directory /[directory]/ --after [number from previous command output]

7 - Check the RECOVERY_FILES directory to find the recovered files

PS. results even for the erased files in trash:

Trash directory is located in:

/home/user/.local/share/Trash/files