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I'm using ubuntu 9.10 and accidently deleted a specific file within a directory on my system. I checked in the Trash bin and could not locate the file. I deleted it 10mins ago, are there any tools available that I can recovery this file? It's a really important file.
Any help would be highly appreciated
My partition is ext4
Another risk is that the file was highly fragmented and then it is extremely hard if not impossible to recover as well. – Shaihi – 2010-01-20T11:45:14.780
@Shaihi: right. You've still got a chance of recovering the file if the number of pieces are not too large:
file
may help identify the first piece, and hopefully the number of combinations of the remaining pieces is not too large. The more you know about the file format, the more workable this is. – Charles Stewart – 2010-01-20T11:57:15.393