---
name: "recover"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "recover"
version: "1.3c-11"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/recover"
---

# recover(1)

recover a deleted file

## NAME

recover - recover a deleted file

## SYNOPSIS

 recover \[device\] \[options\]

## OPTIONS

 \-h, --help	prints help\
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  \-a, --all	no filtering; dump all deleted inodes

## DESCRIPTION

**recover** recovers a file which matches some ext2 - info about the deleted inode by getting all the deleted inodes and filtering them. It's based upon the Ext2Undeletion-howto by Aaron Crane. Using this utility, your chances to recover a lost file should increase a lot.

## QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELETED FILE

  o Hard disk device name\
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   o Year of deletion\
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   o Month of deletion\
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   o Weekday of deletion\
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   o First/Last possible day of month\
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   o Min/Max possible file size\
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   o Min/Max possible deletion hour\
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   o Min/Max possible deletion minute \
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   o User ID of the deleted file\
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   o A text string the file included (can be ignored)

## BUGS

Please note that recover does not work with ext3 filesystems, it is strictly ext2-only. For further information on this, please read  /usr/share/doc/recover/README.ext2only

## WARRANTY

There is no warranty.

## SEE ALSO

debugfs (8)

## AUTHOR

Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be)

## WEBSITE

http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover