abysmalbiscuit / extundeletex

Fork of extundelete updated to work with the latest e2fsprogs library.

ExtundeleteX

Requirements

To compile and install this program, you should first install the binary and development packages for e2fsprogs and e2fslibs. You must also have a C++ compiler and a make utility to compile extundelete.

Installation

Acquiring sources

To compile the program from source, either download the latest release or clone the repository to build the latest version:

git clone https://github.com/AbysmalBiscuit/ExtundeleteX.git

Building Using make

Configuring and building

Run the following commands from the extundeletex-x.y.z or ExtundeleteX directory:

./configure
make

Installing

The extundelete program may be run as-is from the build directory, or you may wish to install it to a directory that is shared with other executable programs, which you may do by running the following command:

make install

Example full installation compilation instructions for extundelete:

git clone https://github.com/AbysmalBiscuit/ExtundeleteX.git
cd ExtundeleteX
./configure
make
src/extundelete --help

Building Using cmake

Configuring and building

Run the following commands from the extundeletex-x.y.z or ExtundeleteX directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Installing

Run the following commands:

make install

Example full installation compilation instructions for ExtundeleteX:

git clone https://github.com/AbysmalBiscuit/ExtundeleteX.git
cd ExtundeleteX
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
src/extundelete --help

Usage

To see the various supported options, type:

extundelete --help

Sample use case scenario

Note that some of the following commands will require special permissions to complete.
Adding 'sudo ' before the command is one way to ensure you have the necessary permissions.

Assume you have deleted a file called:

/home/user/an/important/file

Also assume the output of the 'mount' command shows this line (among others):

/dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)

This line shows that the /home directory is on the partition named /dev/sda3, so then run:

umount /dev/sda3

and check that it is now unmounted by running the mount command again and seeing it is not listed. Now, with this information, run extundelete:

extundelete /dev/sda3 --restore-file user/an/important/file

If you have deleted the directory 'important', you can run:

extundelete /dev/sda3 --restore-directory user/an/important

Or if you have deleted everything, you can run:

extundelete /dev/sda3 --restore-all

Notice

I am not the original author of extundelete and have forked it from the original sourceforge repository because it was broken and seemed abandoned.

extundeletex's Issues

ExtundeleteX Segfaults when attempting any recovery task

The reason why ExtundeleteX Segfaults is due to a change in the e2fsprogs library that happened between versions 1.42.12 and 1.43.13

If anyone would like to contribute or has any suggestions as to how ExtundeleteX can be fixed I am very happy to accept PRs and any help. :)

I will post progress updates in this issue.