From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Bc. Martin Šafránek" <safranek@ntc.zcu.cz>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: Is it possible to recover deleted files from a healthy XFS filesystem?
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 21:30:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aBmQaN5EAmwfVYaP@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18512e-6818b200-1ab-59e10800@49678430>
A long time ago there was a simple xfs_irecover tool to scan blocks
for inode signatures. We never managed to port it to use libxfs and
the code repository for it seems to have disappeared.
But in general, yes you can scan for inode clusters that have not been
reused, but it is very low-level and dangerous if you don't know what
you are doing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-06 4:30 UTC|newest]
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2025-05-05 12:42 ` Question: Is it possible to recover deleted files from a healthy XFS filesystem? Bc. Martin Šafránek
2025-05-05 19:48 ` Carlos Maiolino
2025-05-05 20:39 ` Carlos E. R.
2025-05-06 4:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-05-06 4:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
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