Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder}

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Update - was {Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder}
Date	2017-10-18 21:20 +0200
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On 10/18/2017 11:04 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I had posted:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> I have copied the partition to another partition (using dd).
> The critical data in the deleted  folder(s) was my SeaMonkey profile.
> I discovered I did have a several months old backup of the profile.
> I am now running Squeeze  (9.1) from a fresh install and installed the
> latest SeaMonkey on it.
>
> Several packages in the Debian repository have been suggested. I will
> download their man-pages and will try them.
>
> Several forensic packages have also been suggested which will used if
> required.
>
> Thanks for the help.

I did "extundelete --restore-all /dev/sdaNN".
It apparently worked while stating it could not restore several files.
SeaMonkey was unhappy with the results -- giving an error message 
suggestive of permission problem(s).
That is still progress, before SeaMonkey would not start.
I'll have to take a break and work out a reasonable diagnostic routine.
Thanks again.

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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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