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Error: ext4magic Error 13 while opening filesystem
I'm trying to recover an accidentally removed directory (`/home/garid/.gnupg`) with `ext4magic`. However, It outputs following error: ```sh $ ext4magic /dev/nvme0n1p3 -f /home/garid/.gnupg/ -a $(date -d -5days +%s) /dev/nvme0n1p3 Error 13 while opening filesystem ext4magic : EXIT_SUCCESS ``` I'm not...
I'm trying to recover an accidentally removed directory (/home/garid/.gnupg) with ext4magic. However, It outputs following error:
$ ext4magic /dev/nvme0n1p3  -f /home/garid/.gnupg/  -a $(date -d -5days +%s)
/dev/nvme0n1p3 Error 13 while opening filesystem
ext4magic : EXIT_SUCCESS
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. What is Error 13? And How can I make it work? --------------------------------------- My distro is Archlinux. My Partition table:
nvme0n1     259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0     1G  0 part /efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    32G  0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 443.9G  0 part /
--------------------- As suggested in below, running as root outputs below:
$ sudo ext4magic /dev/nvme0n1p3  -f /home/garid/.gnupg/  -a $(date -d -5days +%s)
[sudo] password for garid:
Filesystem in use: /dev/nvme0n1p3

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zsh: segmentation fault  sudo ext4magic /dev/nvme0n1p3 -f /home/garid/.gnupg/ -a $(date -d -5days +%s)
Garid Z. (552 rep)
Mar 3, 2023, 10:59 AM • Last activity: May 8, 2025, 12:04 AM
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rescue image with ext4magic or extundelete
Some rescue operations and similar need to be done with the the drive or volume unmounted. Previously I have downloaded an .iso of GParted which I put on a USB stick and booted up from it into a basic gui from which it was possible to rearrange the partitions on the disk. Now I just deleted a single...
Some rescue operations and similar need to be done with the the drive or volume unmounted. Previously I have downloaded an .iso of GParted which I put on a USB stick and booted up from it into a basic gui from which it was possible to rearrange the partitions on the disk. Now I just deleted a single file I've been working on for days with rm (I know..) and need to really try to get it back. ext4magic should be able to do it, I have the command ready to go. extundelete maybe but that one is unmaintained. I just put my debian-11.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso onto the USB from a dd command and booted from it. There was a 'rescue mode' option. That provided a semi-useless terminal with almost no commands or otherwise it allowed the root partition of the PC to be brought to life in a terminal. So I did that but the partition with the file I wanted to recover being /home was also mounted but I needed it unmounted. There are a few rescue things out there such as - https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ https://www.system-rescue.org/ ...which don't look like they have it. I just tested https://www.finnix.org/ - dd'd it to the USB and booted it into its terminal. It had a lot of commands but none to recover ext4 Does anyone know where can I find a bootable CD .iso image to put on the USB-stick which will boot into some kind of live system, not insist on partitioning the drive or installing itself, and have available the command ext4magic or otherwise extundelete ?
cardamom (662 rep)
Aug 16, 2023, 05:06 PM • Last activity: Aug 16, 2023, 11:32 PM
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