Bug 6941

(spec available at mdv or fc)

Summary: Working ext4 file undelete utility => extundelete, working ext4 file undelete utility
Source RPM: (none) => extundelete
Whiteboard: (none) => spec

extundelete-0.2.0-1.mga3 is now available in Cauldron.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

I will do a update_testing soon as it was in Mandriva.

Thank you Damien :)
Will it become available in mga2?

New version 0.2.1 fixes segmentation faults and recovers more files.

Please test extundelete-0.2.4-1.mga2 for "core/updates_testing".

Thank you Damien
Simple test full OK on current mga2 x86_64.

I copied a folder tree, then deleted it, unmounted that partition.
(and for unknown reason i had to reboot to free it completely)
then ran this extundelete and it found the whole tree, (and failed some remnants of eariler deleted files)

Please make for mga3 too :)

Don't worry, it's already in Mageia 3. ;-)
Thanks for the test.
Let me write an update request for this package in 2.

Advisory:
This update adds extundelete package which was present in Mandriva 2010.2 but
missing in Mageia 2.

SRPM package:
- extundelete-0.2.4-1.mga2.src.rpm

How to test:
- Install Mageia 2
- Install extundelete from "core/updates_testing"
- Copy a folder tree on a ext* partition you can unmount
- Delete it (the folder tree)
- Unmount the partition where was the folder tree
- Use extundelete to recover the files

Assignee: mageia => qa-bugs
Summary: extundelete, working ext4 file undelete utility => Update candidate: extundelete, working ext4 file undelete utility
Source RPM: extundelete => extundelete-0.2.4-1.mga2.src.rpm
Whiteboard: spec => (none)

Thankyou Morgan. Adding mga2 64 ok from your test.

Whiteboard: (none) => mga2-64-ok

Testing mga2 32 with an ext4 partition

# mkdir /mnt/test
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
# cp -r /usr/share/doc/zip /mnt/test

# ls /mnt/test
lost+found/  zip/

# rm -rf /mnt/test/zip
# ls /mnt/test
lost+found/

# umount /mnt/test
# extundelete --restore-directory 'zip' /dev/sdb1
NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored.
Loading filesystem metadata ... 16 groups loaded.
Loading journal descriptors ... 23 descriptors loaded.
Searching for recoverable inodes in directory zip ...
1 recoverable inodes found.
Looking through the directory structure for deleted files ...
1 recoverable inodes still lost.
No files were undeleted.

# ls
drakx/  RECOVERED_FILES/  tmp/

# ls RECOVERED_FILES/

# rm -rf RECOVERED_FILES/
# extundelete --restore-all /dev/sdb1
NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored.
Loading filesystem metadata ... 16 groups loaded.
Loading journal descriptors ... 23 descriptors loaded.
Searching for recoverable inodes in directory / ...
1 recoverable inodes found.
Looking through the directory structure for deleted files ...
0 recoverable inodes still lost.

# ls RECOVERED_FILES/

Seems nothing is being recovered. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi Claire
You should try path /test/zip instead;
the full path to directory to undelete, excluding its mount point

Now on mga3-64, test pass:
Using my my /boot as it is a separate /ext4 partition i can unmount:

# mkdir /boot/test
# cp -r /usr/share/doc/zip /boot/test  
# rm -rf /boot/test/zip
# umount /boot
# extundelete --restore-directory /test/zip/ /dev/sda1
NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored.
Loading filesystem metadata ... 18 groups loaded.
Loading journal descriptors ... 138 descriptors loaded.
Searching for recoverable inodes in directory /test/zip/ ... 
9 recoverable inodes found.
Looking through the directory structure for deleted files ... 
1 recoverable inodes still lost.
# ls RECOVERED_FILES/
test/
# ls RECOVERED_FILES/test/
zip/
# ls RECOVERED_FILES/test/zip
BUGS  CHANGES  INSTALL  LICENSE  README  TODO  WHATSNEW  WHERE

Thanks Morgan

Testing complete mga2 32

Validating

Advisory & SRPM in comment 9

Could sysadmin please push from 2 core/updates_testing to core/Updates

Thanks!

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: has_procedure mga2-64-ok feedback => has_procedure mga2-64-ok mga2-32-ok
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Update pushed:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGAA-2013-0023

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED