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Latest Tutorials Recovering deleted files under FreeBSD | Recovering deleted files under FreeBSD |
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| Saturday, 19 February 2011 | |
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If you deleted files by mistake under FreeBSD (or Linux), there is not all lost. You might lost your file name but the data is on the disk (unallocated space). It it is possible to somehow recover your data if you did not copied something else in that free space. To recover that you will have to follow the following steps: 1. Step 1. Remove your drive and install it on other FreeBSD machine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Right when the tragedy happens you must shop your FreeBSD machine, remove the hard drive, install it on other FreeBSD machine. Is important not to copy any data on that disk or modify that disk in any way. We asume that the disk with problem is /dev/ad1 and we installed this disk on a second machine where /dev/ad0 is the primary hard drive, where we will recover lost (deleted) data from /dev/ad1. 2. Step 2. Install testdisk app from ports ---------------------------------------------------- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk make install clean 3. Step 3. Run photorec tool from testdisk app ------------------------------------------------------------- After you've installed testdisk you will find a tool called photorec that belong to testdisk port/package. Asuming that the drive you want to recover is /dev/ad1 and you have disk space available to recover data on your /dev/ad0 in /home/user/recover you will recover the deleted files with the command: mkdir /home/user/recover photorec /d /home/user/recover /dev/ad1 Your terminal will look like this: PhotoRec 6.11, Data Recovery Utility, April 2009 Christophe GRENIER http://www.cgsecurity.org Disk /dev/ad6 - 500 GB / 465 GiB (RO) Partition Start End Size in sectors 1 * FreeBSD 0 1 1 969020 15 63 976773105 823779 files saved in /home/user/recover/recup_dir directory. Recovery completed. txt: 575605 recovered elf: 170782 recovered tx?: 29877 recovered gz: 26826 recovered a: 5532 recovered png: 4999 recovered gif: 2798 recovered tz: 2787 recovered bz2: 1182 recovered MYI: 980 recovered others: 2411 recovered And voila, you will find there your files. |
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