Can XFS Filesystem Recover Rm’ed Files?

Can XFS Filesystem Recover Rm’ed Files?

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January 7, 2019 Dave Burns CentOS 1 Comment

Yes, I rm’ed the wrong directory. The disk has not been written to since, now mounted ro. Is it possible to recover the files without doing forensics on the whole partition? I know the UID and path. XFS is supposed to be pretty amazing, can I get it to do this?

Thanks, Dave

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Gordon Messmer says:

January 7, 2019 at 4:03 pm

I can’t find any reports of successful undelete from XFS.

http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Does_the_filesystem_have_an_undelete_capability.3F

Red Hat suggests xfs_irecover, testdisk, and sleuthkit. Others recommend photorec. I don’t see XFS undelete support listed on the web pages for either testdisk or photorec.

Good luck.