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Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder

From Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder
Date 2017-10-16 17:50 +0200
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On 16-10-17, Richard Owlett wrote:
> It wasn't backed up - will have to follow advice  advice I've given others
> ;/
> I've not done file recovery since early days of WinXP.
> 
> On the affected machine I'm running Stretch(9.1) with Mate desktop.
> The affected folders are on a partition normally mounted by a line in fstab.
> 
> I immediately shut down.
> There is another instance of Debian on a separate partition.
> Logging in as root I edited fstab commenting out the appropriate line.
> 
> I feel the the data is still valid - there is just no appropriate directory
> entries for the affected folder and its sub-directories.
> 
> Guidance please.
> 
> TIA
> 

You can use scalpel, or foremost. Both work fine, both are packaged in
Debian. You can use them both on hard drives/partitions and on imaged
files.

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Recovering accidentally deleted file folder Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-16 17:30 +0200
  Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder Deltonos <deltonos77@gmail.com> - 2017-10-16 17:40 +0200
    Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder "tv.debian@googlemail.com" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> - 2017-10-16 17:50 +0200
      Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-10-17 14:10 +0200
  Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-10-16 17:50 +0200
  Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-18 18:10 +0200
    Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-18 21:20 +0200
      Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-20 14:40 +0200

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