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NAME

       recover - recover a deleted file

SYNOPSIS

        recover [device] [options]

OPTIONS

        -h, --help    prints help
        -a, --all     no filtering; dump all deleted inodes

DESCRIPTION

       recover  recovers  a  file  which  matches  some  ext2 - info about the
       deleted inode by getting all the deleted  inodes  and  filtering  them.
       It’s  based  upon  the  Ext2Undeletion-howto by Aaron Crane. Using this
       utility, your chances to recover a lost file should increase a lot.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELETED FILE

         o Hard disk device name
         o Year of deletion
         o Month of deletion
         o Weekday of deletion
         o First/Last possible day of month
         o Min/Max possible file size
         o Min/Max possible deletion hour
         o Min/Max possible deletion minute
         o User ID of the deleted file
         o A text string the file included (can be ignored)

BUGS

       Please note that recover does not work with  ext3  filesystems,  it  is
       strictly  ext2-only.  For  further  information  on  this,  please read
       /usr/share/doc/recover/README.ext2only

WARRANTY

       There is no warranty.

SEE ALSO

        debugfs (8)

AUTHOR

       Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be)

WEBSITE

       http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover

                                November 4 1999