Re: [Extundelete-users] Recover damaged rm -rf files

[<ext...@li...>]

On 8/31/15 12:07 AM, ext...@li... wrote:
> I think i have damaged whatever i need to restore by running extundelete
> without unmounting the device. I had made a image of the whole partition
> to a remote machine and by running extundelete, i can only recover a
> single file, but it is corrupted. In the directory, there are 20
> sub-folders and at least 10k documents.
> 
> sigh.
> 
> Would like to know if i can repair the inode and restore the deleted files
> 
I think from your description you can still run extundelete on the image
you made.  There is no way to undo any writes extundelete made; it does
the same work that copying a file would.  If you want to manually repair
something, use debugfs (part of e2fsprogs), which allows viewing and
modification of file system structures.  There is a program called
ext4magic that may try different methods to recover your files or help
repair the inode you want.  I have seen helpful messages from robi, its
author, on this forum before, but do not have any experience using it.

Good luck,
Nic