I just deleted a file in Nautilus with Shift+Delete, which warned me that "If you delete an item, it will be permanently lost." I wonder if there is no way to recover the file?
My OS is Ubuntu 10.10.
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1What kind of fs? ext3? ext4? – frabjous Aug 13 '11 at 19:26
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@frabjous: ntfs shared with Windows. – Tim Aug 13 '11 at 19:28
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3And [this thread](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/recovering-deleted-files-on-fedora) might help too, since nothing is fedora-specific. – frabjous Aug 13 '11 at 19:29
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The first thing you have to do is to umount the partition. Next, TestDisk might help
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There are lots of disk scanners to help you get your files back after you unmount the file system. Try this one, a free open source solution just for ext filesystems.
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Check the following links to find some howtos to use popular data recovery tools like foremost, photorec, scalpel and magic rescue:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/recover-data-like-a-forensics-expert-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
and finally:
http://technology-flow.com/articles/backtrack-5-complete-tut/forensics/
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