I have to recover some files deleted while ago. I hope there are still there waiting for me to be saved, but I can't install foremost to pull them out. It's asking for rtld(GNU_HASH) which if I am not wrong is part of glibc which on the other hand is already there of course.

Any ideas?

Centos 4.7


Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package foremost.i386 0:1.5-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) for package: foremost
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by package foremost

What filesystem do you use? If these files are on ext2 or ext3, then use "debugfs" first before possibly overwriting them. It is better to work of a live distro so that you can have the filesystem off line.

jschiwal, thanks for reply. What do you mean by overwriting? Can foremost possibly do some damage on the filesystem?

I'm not familiar with foremost. Are you building foremost on the same system you will later try to recover deleted files from? The process of building a package could write over old deleted files making them unrecoverable. Best practice is to backup the partition image using the dd command, so you can try to recover files from the backup image.