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I have mistakenly deleted my movies using root rm -rf /home/username/Videos/movies. How can i recover it, I have already installed extundelete and am using ext4 and its mounted at /dev/sda

Derick Asamani
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    You can refer the following url http://askubuntu.com/questions/25311/best-tool-to-recover-removed-files – BDRSuite Jan 02 '15 at 06:40
  • Best is to physically remove the hard drive from the computer, put it in a USB enclosure and perform the recovery on another computer ensuring you only read from the hard drive containing the deleted files and never write to it until you've got 100% of your files back. If you do not have a second computer, boot from a LiveCD and recover from your "deleted files" drive to another (E.G. your back-up drive) Third and worst: perform a recovery in-place, but expect to lose about 1%-50% of all files depending on the tool you use. – Fabby Jan 03 '15 at 13:21

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Run a liveCD or USB and mount your partition with the filesystem as "readonly", supposing your Ubuntu partition is on sda2, you can execute this command

mkdir ~/recovery/

sudo mount -o ro /dev/sda2 ~/recovery/

And now recovery command for just a file:

sudo extundelete /dev/sda2 --restore-file /home/username/Videos/movies/movie.avi

To recovery a directory:

sudo extundelete /dev/sda2 --restore-directory /home/username/Videos/movies/

Or restore all:

sudo extundelete /dev/sda2 --restore-all

This should work. I

blkpws
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