Data may be lost due to hardware or software failures; data recovery is the process of restoring the lost data.
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Recovering deleted files on fedora
I accidentally deleted a file from my laptop. I'm using Fedora. Is it possible to recover the file?
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How to recover a file just deleted [duplicate]
I just deleted a file in Nautilus with Shift+Delete, which warned me that "If you delete an item, it will be permanently lost." I wonder if there is no way to recover the file?
My OS is Ubuntu 10.10. ...
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undelete files from local fileserver
I have a NAS (mybook world white light) in my living room where all my music and stuff is stored. I've mounted the music folder of the nas in the local music folder of my home directory on my desktop ...
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Recover formatted ext3 partition
Suppose you have an ext3 partition which was unfortunately formated as ext4 partition (and where now are some but not a lot new files on it). Is there any way to recover (some) files from the old ext3 ...
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How to recover a crashed Linux md RAID5 array?
Some time ago I had a RAID5 system at home. One of the 4 disks failed but after removing and putting it back it seemed to be OK so I started a resync. When it finished I realized, to my horror, that 3 ...
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saving data from a failing drive
An external 3½" HDD seems to be in danger of failing — it's making ticking sounds when idle.
I've acquired a replacement drive, and want to know the best strategy to get the data off of the dubious ...
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Recovering ext4 superblocks
Recently, my external hard drive enclosure failed (the hard drive itself powers up in another enclosure). However, as a result, it appears its EXT4 file system is corrupt.
The drive has a single ...
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How to recover data from a bad SD card?
I have a 4GB SD card with some family pictures on it that I need to recover. When I insert the card into my card reader, it shows up as an unknown 32MB device (as /dev/sde) and cannot be mounted. When ...
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How are files laid out in ext2/ext3/ext4?
A few days ago all my metadata on a ext4 format flash card was overwritten.
I am now going to speculate on how this happened. This is pure speculation. It happened just after I used a different ...
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How to undelete/restore the deleted files in ubuntu linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recovering deleted files on fedora
undelete files from local fileserver
I accidentally did rm * in a directory instead of another directory from console in a Ubuntu11 ...
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.bashrc overwritten but still sourced — how can it be recovered?
Usually when I find a command I want to alias, I echo it to my .bashrc like so:
[up button pressed to last command, then line edited so that it reads]
$echo "command-i-just-did" >> ~/.bashrc
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Securely delete files on btrfs filesystem
Sometimes, there's the need to delete a file in a filesystem, and make sure that the file is truly gone. A file that contains sensitive passwords, for example, should be throughly wiped from the disk.
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Does LVM increase the risk of data loss?
Let's say I have two identical disks, and I set one LVM logical volume on them (no mirroring). Question: What will happen when one of the disks fails?
I will lose all the data from all the disks
I ...
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Recovering overwritten LVM metadata
Yesterday I was trying using the Debian install in rescue mode in order to fix my Grub (The menu-item for Debian was suddenly gone).
Now I wasn't able to fix it and didn't have a lot of time, so I ...
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Confusion with how to restore corrupt ext3 files if power outage occurs during a file write
I am running a small embedded system. Because the system will never be gracefully shutdown and will just have the power cable unplugged, I am running an initramfs but mounting an ext3 partition on a ...
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how to restore a logical partition to it's original ext4 format
This question is following Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7 where the diagnostic was that installing windows 7 deleted my /home partion, lovingly ...
