Re: [Extundelete-users] Recover damaged rm -rf files
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From: <ext...@li...> - 2015-08-30 19:25:07
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On 8/30/15 4:13 AM, ext...@li... wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to umount the disk but i ran extundelete anyway and now it > is damaged. Is there anyway to repair and undelete again? > > Loading filesystem metadata ... 2348 groups loaded. > Loading journal descriptors ... 31147 descriptors loaded. > Unable to restore inode 1110794 (home/vpopmail/): No undeleted copies > found in the journal. > Unable to restore file /home/vpopmail/ > extundelete: Operation not permitted while restoring file. > extundelete: Operation not permitted when trying to examine filesystem > Hello, I am not sure exactly what you mean, but I will try to guess. I guess that you specified the output directory to be somewhere on the same partition that you deleted some files. I also guess that you want to 'repair' the disk to put it back in its state before running extundelete. If those two guesses are correct, then there is no way to rewind your actions because you allowed extundelete to write to the partition (along with any other processes that happened to be running). I don't know what you mean by 'damaged', but if the OS will no longer mount the partition for some strange reason, you will need to run fsck to repair the partition. Of course, you can try to run extundelete at any time. The error messages above looked like they would be related to not having permission to write to the directory you were trying to restore to. I usually test the program by running as root, but as long as you can read the raw partition and write to the output directory, those errors should disappear. Nic |