Comments on: Linux recover deleted files with lsof command – howto

By: Madhukar kumar

Madhukar kumar — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:39:34 +0000

Hi Guys,
Accidentaly I deleted all of my file using
rm -rf *
It contained some important data. I need those
data back.Can any body help me in this regard.

Thanks in advance,
Madhukar kumar.

By: vinay

vinay — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:21:46 +0000

in my centos server configuration files has been deleted due to accident. i want to recover that files tell me how can i recover those files.

By: Panacea

Panacea — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:55:44 +0000

Hello all,
All the files in my directory has been accidentally deleted on an SGI server using the rm -r command. None of the files are backed up. Please, can anyone help me out with possibility of recovering my files? It will highly be appreciated and acknowledged. Thanks.

By: mozmel

mozmel — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:17:25 +0000

hi
i have some files deleted from linux and i want to recover it with orginal names>>
can any one help me to do that?
thanks

By: Poorna Chandra

Poorna Chandra — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:39:08 +0000

How to recover the Deleted files in linux(edubuntu)
please accidentally i deleted my important folder

By: Peter Stoelzgen

Peter Stoelzgen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:38:33 +0000

Hi.
Like some other people I did something very stupid.
I deleted my home directory using the following command:
userdel -r pedro

After I read your article I approached the problem in the following way:
lsof | grep /home/pedro

I receive a four line answer:
bash 4414 root cwd DIR 8,2 0 8085505 /home/pedro (deleted)
lsof 5650 root cwd DIR 8,2 0 8085505 /home/pedro (deleted)
grep 5651 root cwd DIR 8,2 0 8085505 /home/pedro (deleted)
lsof 5652 root cwd DIR 8,2 0 8085505 /home/pedro (deleted)

Is there any possibility to recover the whole directory by setting some values manually.
Please write back,
Pedro

By: Bhanu

Bhanu — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:02:19 +0000

i have deleted one important files on lamp server.
is there any idea to recover that files from server.
plssssss replyyyyyy m n messsss

By: jim

jim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:19:07 +0000

I have moved files from a directory to a computer on the network and have since discovered that the drive they were moved to is bad. It is my sense that moving and deleting are largely the same process, is there a best way to recover the files from the directory they were moved from? THANKS! -jim-

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:35:21 +0000

I delete a whole data in home folder by rm -rf * then
how i recover the data pls reply me at the earliest possible. I am in mess….

By: Moon

Moon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:10:59 +0000

Hi Manoj,
If you follow step by step from this site you might recover the file.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linuxunix-recover-deleted-files.html

That guides to have you in a level than try to search your directory or file either by grep or locate command.

Regards,

By: sanjat

sanjat — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:26:37 +0000

hello
Actually I have deleted a file by using “shift+delete”..
i want to recover it
m using fedora core 10
please help
thank you in advance

By: Winfried Buechert

Winfried Buechert — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:59:24 +0000

the editor deleted the PID, use this:
cp /proc/PID/fd/255 recovered

By: Winfried Buechert

Winfried Buechert — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:55:08 +0000

Hi,
I just managed to recover a script, that was still running in an endless loop, but I deleted the File:
./doit &
rm doit
lsof | grep doit (you get the PID, you get the INUM also, but that did not help)
cat /proc//fd/255 (outputs the script)

By: Sanjay sachdeva

Sanjay sachdeva — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:14:03 +0000

By mistake i delete my file by rm command, file name is myprog.tgz. This file contains all my programs. Can any one help me for recover this file.

By: Iain

Iain — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:39:13 +0000

You don’t actually link to the article on Linux.com, it’s here: http://www.linux.com/articles/58142

By: Chetan

Chetan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:41:08 +0000

System->Administration->Software Sources. From the terminal I installed Foremost:
sudo apt-get install foremost

You need to know your target partition’s path to recover from it. I simply started System-Administration->Partition Editor and saw the the home partition is /dev/sda1.

Let’s recover some JPEG images:
sudo foremost -t jpeg -i /dev/sda1

This command causes Foremost to create a directory called output and put every file it can recover in. This could take a while.

By: Ashish Amre

Ashish Amre — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:52:42 +0000

Some one destroyed all my vpses now I want to recover data please help me how to recover that data.

By: manoj

manoj — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:49:19 +0000

This is a nice site which can help us in urgent.

By: manoj

manoj — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:48:17 +0000

Hi Guys,
Accidentaly I deleted all of my folders using
rm -rf *
It contained some important data. I need those
data back.Can any body help me in this regard.

Thanks in advance,
Manoj.

By: guna

guna — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:18:51 +0000

I want recover the deleted files and directory command. Please help me give proceture.