debian man page for recover

RECOVER(1)						      General Commands Manual							RECOVER(1)

NAME
       recover - recover a deleted file

SYNOPSIS
	recover [device] [options]

OPTIONS
	-h, --help    prints help
	-a, --all     no filtering; dump all deleted inodes

DESCRIPTION
       recover	recovers  a file which matches some ext2 - info about the deleted inode by getting all the deleted inodes and filtering them. It's
       based upon the Ext2Undeletion-howto by Aaron Crane. Using this utility, your chances to recover a lost file should increase a lot.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELETED FILE
	 o Hard disk device name
	 o Year of deletion
	 o Month of deletion
	 o Weekday of deletion
	 o First/Last possible day of month
	 o Min/Max possible file size
	 o Min/Max possible deletion hour
	 o Min/Max possible deletion minute
	 o User ID of the deleted file
	 o A text string the file included (can be ignored)

BUGS
       Please note that recover does not work with ext3 filesystems, it is strictly ext2-only.	For  further  information  on  this,  please  read
       /usr/share/doc/recover/README.ext2only

WARRANTY
       There is no warranty.

SEE ALSO
	debugfs (8)

AUTHOR
       Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be)

WEBSITE
       http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover

								  November 4 1999							RECOVER(1)