The one tricky part to using testdisk is that it not only requires sudo or root privileges, it will recover files in a new directory with the same name as the directory they were found in. If you’re on a CentOS machine, that command would be: For example, on our Ubuntu Server 20.04 instance, the installation command would be: Since testdisk is found in the standard repositories, the installation is quite easy. SEE: Linux file and directory management commands (TechRepublic Premium) What you’ll needĪ running instance of Linux (such as Ubuntu Server 20.04) Fear not, those of you who aren’t exactly comfortable with the command line, testdisk is quite easy to use once you know your way around it. That alone should give you an indication that testdisk is a command line tool. I’m going to show you how to do just that. Although this particular piece of software has a few tricks up its sleeve (such as recovering entire partitions), one of the really handy aspects is its ability to recover deleted files.

This is Linux and there’s always a tool to help you out–one such tool is testdisk. What do you do?įirst off, you don’t panic.

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