Recovery of file deleted by rm -rf from Server running on Arch

Question

Accidentally I have deleted few files using rm -rf command. Is there is any way to recover those files. I need them.

Please help me out. Thanks.

Answer 1

Install foremost

sudo apt-get install foremost

Take a look at man foremost to learn how to use foremost.

First make an empty writable directory to save recover files in a partition other than that you are going to recover.

Then run foremost.

I am going to recover my home partition ( let's say /dev/sda5).

$ sudo foremost -t jpg -i /dev/sda5 -o /recovery/data Finally set user permission to /recovery/data/ to view image. type

$ sudo chown YOUR_USER_NAME /recovery/data -R

Some important foremost command line arguments.

-i  :- partition/image to recover
-o :- location to store recovered files.
-t  :- built in file filter options.  you can give multiple filters by separating using commas. (e.g: for jpg and pdf: -t jpg,pdf ) 
-q :- quick mode.

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Also refer : Recover Your Deleted Files In Ubuntu | The easy way.