update: WHILE STILL POWERED ON IMMEDIATELY backup the ext4 journal to file on usb stick: debugfs -R “dump <8> /mount/usb-stick/sda.journal” /dev/sda (assuming sda is the drive where the deletion happened) then “hard reset” unplug the system. then checkout this guide […]
ZFS is probably THE most controversial filesytem in the known universe: “FOSS means that effort is shared across organizations and lowers maintenance costs significantly” (src: comment by JohnFOSS on itsfoss.com) “Mathematicians have a term for this. When you rearrange the […]
equals to: one neat function of the find command, it that what it found can be passed to another program for further processing. or: it can delete the file by adding the option -delete BUT (!!!) THIS IS DANGEROUS! as […]
update: extundelete works well on ext3 but not on ext4. update: WHILE STILL POWERED ON IMMEDIATELY backup the ext4 journal to file on usb stick: debugfs -R “dump <8> /mount/usb-stick/sda.journal” /dev/sda (assuming sda is the drive where the deletion happened) […]
lsb_release -a; # tested with Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) # previously this was tested with cat /etc/os-release |grep PRETTY PRETTY_NAME=”Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)” why? duplicate files are a waste of disk space. every system experiences catastrophic failures, slow downs […]
update: safety first! when it comes to important files: safety comes first while xfs is surely doing a great and fast job, test if undelete utilities work now for ext4, if yes, go for ext4 (having experienced some problems with […]