accidently deleted files from directory

["gert wohlgemuth" <wohlgemuth@ucdavis.edu>]

Hi and thx for your help,

I'm running a gentoo box and using xfs as file system.

On the weekend it happens that I accidentally deleted 1 TB of data (rm -rdf
/mnt/lcq). We have no backup of the data (internal reasons of the
university...) and it would be nice to get the data somehow back.

After the delete the first step was to unmount the partion and this are the
info's from the xfs_check program.

meta-data=/mnt/lcq               isize=256    agcount=32, agsize=9154978
blks
         =                       sectsz=512
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=292959296, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=1
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0

after I did a cat /dev/sda1 | less I could see that some data are still
exist and are not overwritten. So I think "all" what I have todo is some how
get the journal back.

Is there anyway or is all hope lost?

Thx gert

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