today it happened to me again, i deleted an important file.
so within a minute i logged off, remount my home as read-only, did extundelete --after 1344948300 --restore-all /dev/sda3. but like 7-8 times before all get is the error. i want to exclude the possibalities that my fs at fault here, so here is the superblock
Code:
dumpe2fs 1.42.4 (12-June-2012)
Filesystem volume name: home
Last mounted on: /home
Filesystem UUID: 2379d5b8-586b-4db5-830a-b571cfa40fe9
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 26984448
Block count: 107934464
Reserved block count: 5396723
Free blocks: 11799578
Free inodes: 26823561
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Reserved GDT blocks: 998
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8192
Inode blocks per group: 512
RAID stride: 1
RAID stripe width: 1
Flex block group size: 16
Filesystem created: Tue Nov 8 05:48:35 2011
Last mount time: Tue Aug 14 18:20:14 2012
Last write time: Tue Aug 14 18:20:14 2012
Mount count: 7
Maximum mount count: 20
Last checked: Fri Aug 10 21:53:25 2012
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Wed Feb 6 21:53:25 2013
Lifetime writes: 783 GB
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 256
Required extra isize: 28
Desired extra isize: 28
Journal inode: 8
Default directory hash: half_md4
Directory Hash Seed: b57ab944-2bd7-4279-a159-8aa859a34b62
Journal backup: inode blocks
Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke
Journal size: 128M
Journal length: 32768
Journal sequence: 0x00170d1a
Journal start: 1
is there any other way that i can recover my deleted files in fututre like making hard links .
thanks