i have deleted my movies please help

Question

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

Answer 1

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