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I am trying to use recover command to recover my deleted file, however when I use it, process got aborted with below error: recover: No valid standard devices found; are you a privileged user?

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Below are my system Details: OS: Ubuntu 10.04

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    Please post text as text. And can you show output of findmnt.
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I think recover can only be used on ext2 formatted disks. Please check if the file you're trying to recover is on this type - fdisk -l will display attached disks. Also if the file system is still mounted r/w there's a chance the deleted file has been over written.

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