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 21:34:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aBmRRqCbqKX0bMln@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aBmQaN5EAmwfVYaP@infradead.org>
On Mon, May 05, 2025 at 09:30:32PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
If you are looking for specific file types, PhotoRec
(https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) might also be an option.
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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
2025-05-06 4:34 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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