Hints, tips and advice on restoring data deleted (rm -rf !) from a Fedora 35 LVM ?

[linux guy]

As you can read about in another thread, the home directories on one of my
Fedora 35 computers were deleted using rm -rf.   These directories are
located on an EXT4 LVM.

How should I proceed to try to restore this data ?

Thanks

[Frank]

On 2021-11-18 3:43 p.m., linux guy wrote:
>  As you can read about in another thread, the home directories on one
>
>  of my Fedora 35 computers were deleted using rm -rf.   These 
>  directories are located on an EXT4 LVM.
>
>  How should I proceed to try to restore this data ?
>
>  Thanks 
You could try some of these suggestions. I don't think it looks good.


https://serverfault.com/questions/992911/recovering-as-much-as-possible-f...

[Samuel Sieb]

On 11/18/21 12:49, Frank wrote:
>  
>  On 2021-11-18 3:43 p.m., linux guy wrote:
> > As you can read about in another thread, the home directories on one 
> > of my Fedora 35 computers were deleted using rm -rf.   These 
> > directories are located on an EXT4 LVM.
> >
> > How should I proceed to try to restore this data ?
> >
> > Thanks
>  
>  You could try some of these suggestions. I don't think it looks good.
>  
>  
>
> https://serverfault.com/questions/992911/recovering-as-much-as-possible-f...
>  
It's not quite as bad as that since the disk didn't fail.  But there are 
some suggestions of tools to use.  ddrescue won't be necessary, since 
you're not trying to make an image of a failed drive.

The first tool you should try is "extundelete".

[linux guy]

I tried a bunch of tools.  The results were interesting.  I'll update the
group when I get caught up with things.