Not understanding undelete basics: ext4
Posted: 29 May 2013, 04:51
I'm trying to recover recently deleted files from an ext4 partition. When I try to select this partition, I don't see "Undelete" as an option. Here's what I've tried:
1. selecting /dev/sda, which selects EFI as the default filesystem
2. Select "Advanced"
I do see "undelete" if I select the "MS Data" partition, but that isn't where my data is/was.
I've also tried the selecting the "home" location in the first list (/dev/mapper/hanserver2-home). This selects "[None]" as the filesystem. When I then go to "Advanced" for this drive, I see:
Again no "[Undelete]". If I choose "List", I can browse that filestructure and see a bunch of files, but some of which were deleted long ago (and marked in "red"), but I don't find the files that were JUST deleted. I even tried "select all" and "copy all selected" (to a different drive), but this didn't restore the ones I'm trying to find.
Am I doing something wrong? Why might my most recent deletions not be in here?
1. selecting /dev/sda, which selects EFI as the default filesystem
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>Disk /dev/sda - 13 TB / 12 TiB - DELL PERC 6/i
Disk /dev/mapper/hanserver2-home - 13 TB / 12 TiB - DELL PERC 6/i
Disk /dev/mapper/hanserver2-root - 95 GB / 89 GiB - DELL PERC 6/i
Disk /dev/mapper/hanserver2-swap_1 - 4110 MB / 3920 MiB - DELL PERC 6/i
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Disk /dev/sda - 13 TB / 12 TiB - CHS 1701937 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P Unknown 2048 4095 2048
2 P MS Data 4096 503807 499712
> 3 P Linux LVM 503808 27341617151 27341113344
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[ Type ] >[Image Creation] [ Quit ]
I've also tried the selecting the "home" location in the first list (/dev/mapper/hanserver2-home). This selects "[None]" as the filesystem. When I then go to "Advanced" for this drive, I see:
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Disk /dev/mapper/hanserver2-home - 13 TB / 12 TiB - CHS 1376002051 1 1
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> P ext4 0 27145805823 27145805824
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[ Type ] [Superblock] >[ List ] [Image Creation] [ Quit ]
Am I doing something wrong? Why might my most recent deletions not be in here?