ext4 undelete

Using TestDisk to undelete files
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jlx1784
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Joined: 05 Jan 2026, 08:31

ext4 undelete

#1 Post by jlx1784 »

Hi,
yesterday I accidentally deleted lot of vacation photos, on ext4 with 64bit flag set....
in the past I used Testdisk that recovered files on some exfat (if I remember), but since it's ext4 testdisk don't provide undelete menu...

I tried extundelet, ext4magic but both are outdated, no more maintained, and even warned against use by developer for ext4magic..... Didn't work, ended using photorec that restored a few of them and a lot of old (and even not deleted) photo, so, now I have a bunch of duplicated files... and lot of loss

We don't have any solution for ext4, and today this is the most used filesystem on linux

I'm ready to financially participate to ext4 support in testdisk, really, loosing memories is more valuable than anything, I'm sure that lot of people would do also.
is there an impossibility to recover file on ext4 like on ext2?

thanks and regards
recuperation
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Re: ext4 undelete

#2 Post by recuperation »

Interesting! How much will your participation be?
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