Recovering recently deleted files from an EXT3/EXT4 (with journaling) partition

Submitted by Derick Ng on 15 December 2010 - 12:28pm

If you're running Linux, have you ever had that feeling of dread after deleting a whole chunk of code accidentally? Code that hasn't been checked into a repository, or backed up. A lot of websites will foretell of long hours of recovery if you're running an EXT3 or EXT4 partition with journaling. This post details how I managed to find and use a nifty little utility that recovered almost all of my files for me, in very little time too.