ReiserFS undelete/data recovery HOWTO


My
[[http://www.ideiasverdes.com|girlfriend]] just accidently removed some
files from her ReiserFS home directory using “rm -rf ./path/to/some/dir
*”. Notice the space between dir and *? She didn’t. Oh well, time to
recover that shit back.

Once you realize that you’ve lost data,
don’t do anything else on that partition – you may cause that data to be
overwritten by new data.

0. Unmount the partition from where to
recover deleted files:

umount /home

1. Create
partition copy:

dd if=/dev/hda7 conv=noerror > /hda7.img

2. Set up device containing copy of partition (created in
1.)

losetup /dev/loop/0 /hda7.img

3. Rebuild FS tree, performing a thorough partition scan and logging to /recovery.log file:

reiserfsck --rebuild-tree -S -l /recovery.log /dev/loop/0

(4. Check written log file)

(less /recovery.log)

5. Create directory for mounting recovered
partition:

mkdir /recovery

6. Mount recovered
partition in directory created in 5.

mount /dev/loop/0 /recovery

7. Access recovered partition’s lost+found directory and look for files:

cd /recovery/lost+found

8. If not there (7.), then look for in original directory:

cd /recovery/

9. Remount /home partition:

mount /home

10. Copy recovered files from 7./8. to /home/

cp -r /recovery /home

11. Unmount recovered partition

umount /recovery

12. Detach recovered partition device

losetup -d /dev/loop/0

References:
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undelete/data recovery @ antrix.net]]