Re: Fwd: Need assistance on XFS undeleting files

Eric Sandeen
2010-07-06T19:41:42Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
> James Shih <shija03@gmail.com> writes:
>> I would like to know if the development team carries such tools -
>> tools that allow one to list the inodes of the XFS filesystem of
>> deleted files, and tools that allow one to cat (dump) the blocks from
>> a starting inode to all the following blocks until an indication that
>> the file is ended or a new indication of a new file appears. (these
>> tools would correspond to TCT's ils and pcat respectively).
>
> XFS has no separate reserved inode table (but just allocates/free blocks
> in the fs), so it can be difficult to even find the inodes when they're
> gone.

However, xfs_irecover (http://jengelh.medozas.de/projects/hxtools/) may help,
as long as the fs hasn't been written to much post-delete of course.

-Eric

> -Andi