Big Newbie Mistake...Deleted account, need files back

cwwilson721 · 10-22-2009, 09:18 AM

Well, I did it. I deleted a user account, and their home directory...And I need those files back.

How do I do this? I don't care about the account, I just need the /home/<username> dir back

ponce · 10-22-2009, 09:25 AM

if it's an ext3 filesystem you can try this.

onebuck · 10-22-2009, 09:27 AM

Hi,

'PhotoRec, Digital Picture & File Recovery' or 'TestDisk' may aid you if you haven't written to the space. You might get some back even if the disk space had been written too.

The above links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!

ponce · 10-22-2009, 09:34 AM

just built them with sbopkg (for slack64)

http://omploader.org/vMmxoZA/testdis..._64-1ponce.txz

pixellany · 10-22-2009, 09:35 AM

First, don't do anything that would write to the disk. Ideally, mount it in another machine read-only. (Or at least so the OS is not running from it)

if the data is really valuable, consider cloning it first.

cwwilson721 · 10-22-2009, 09:54 AM

I have 1 hdd. That's it.

It is not a missing/deleted partition. It's a deleted dir.../home/<username>

Neither of those tools will help. The first is WAY over my head. The second is only for partition recovery. And no major adds to the hdd since I removed the user. (The subdir I need is HUGE, probably be fine for awhile.)
I have NOT rebooted, as soon as I saw those files go , I stayed as root (where I am now...I NEVER go on the net as root), and posted/searched.

Cannot clone.

HELP!

cola · 10-22-2009, 09:58 AM

Do you need those files of /home/<useraccount> directory?

cwwilson721 · 10-22-2009, 09:58 AM

Photorec working..Didn't know both were in same package. YEAH! It's recovering a TON of stuff.

onebuck · 10-22-2009, 10:12 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwwilson721

Photorec working..Didn't know both were in same package. YEAH! It's recovering a TON of stuff.

I thought you wanted file recovery, so PhotoRec will work. Your original post didn't say whether 'home' was on a another partition or not. Glad to hear your getting things back.

BTW, Backup!

shadowsnipes · 10-22-2009, 11:48 AM

Just so people are clear where to get the latest SlackBuild for photrec/testdisk

Good stuff!

pixellany · 10-22-2009, 12:01 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...al-Hard-Drives

For backup