Segmentation fault while trying to recover file with extundelete


 
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Old 09-09-2018
Segmentation fault while trying to recover file with extundelete

hello,

I accidentally removed a directory with its contents with rm -r and I don't have a backup. I got to know about extundelete utility on linux and downloaded on my Linux Fedora 28 notebook PC. The file system is ext4. I log in to the system as single user mode and unmount the /home directory from the partition where the file was located; in this case it is /dev/mapper/fedora-home. After I unmounted /home I ran the fsck on the partition and it was successful, but when I try to recover the directory (or a single file) I get segmentation fault like this:
Code:
/ extundelete --restore-directory /home/milhan/Desktop/path/directory /dev/mapper/fedora-home
NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored.
Loading filesystem metadata ... 3256 groups loaded.
Loading journal descriptors ... Segmentation fault (core dumped)

extundelete gave segmentation fault no matter what file I tried to recover, whether a directory or a single file, and I am certain I entered the file path correct. I did this right after the directory or file was removed. I unmounted the /home directory immediately thus avoiding any writes to the partition. Below is my filesystem:
Code:
~ df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    3.9G   78M  3.8G   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    3.9G  1.5M  3.9G   1% /run
tmpfs                    3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/fedora-root   50G   12G   35G  26% /
tmpfs                    3.9G  256K  3.9G   1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/fedora-home  401G   57G  324G  15% /home
/dev/sda1                976M  191M  718M  22% /boot
tmpfs                    790M   24K  790M   1% /run/user/1000

Thank you.
# 2  
Old 09-09-2018
A segmentation fault core dump is not due to user unfamiliarity. It is a program misbehavior outside the user control. In this case it appears that the extundelete utility has fallen out of maintenance and that it requires a version of e2fsprogs that is too old for up to day system.
Have you given a try to testdisk or Photorec?
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Old 09-10-2018
As far as I understand, Photorec tries to recover everything it can. It is telling me it needs another about 34 hours to complete. It has been nearly 6 hours since I started it already.

Last edited by milhan; 09-10-2018 at 03:22 PM.. Reason: correction
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