Ext2fs Undeletion of Directory Structures mini-HOWTO
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# 1. Introduction

## 1.1. Disclaimer

The author is not responsible for damages due actions taken based on this document. You will do everything at your own risk.

## 1.2. License

This document may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the LDP license available at http://www.linuxdoc.org/manifesto.html

## 1.3. Feedback

Any kind of feedback is welcome. Corrections of errors in this text are of great interest. If someone find things described here useful I really would appreciate to hear that from you.

## 1.4. New versions of this document

The latest version of this document will be found at http://www.matematik.su.se/~tomase/ext2fs-undeletion/

## 1.5. Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following persons for correctures etc (in alphabetic order).

- Gabriel Kihlman

- Richard Nyberg

- Mats Oldin

- Tobias Westerblom

## 1.6. Background

This text has been written while solving my own undeletion problems that I had some time ago. I was about to move some directories from one disk to another. The problem was that the extra disk went corrupted directly after the move for some reason.

So I wanted to get the moved directories back from my original disk. There were totally about 40000 files to recover and I did not feel very much like to search and rename each one of them by hand.

I wanted to get back the whole structure of directories. The same situation would have appeared if I had made an rm -rf to those directories.

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