It should be possible to do this also with mc, at least if you have it builtin. from the man: Currently the Midnight Commander is packaged with some Virtual File Systems (VFS): the local file system, used ... tar files; the undelfs, used to recover deleted files on ext2 file systems ... and further: Undelete File System On Linux systems, if you asked configure to use the ext2fs undelete facilities, you will have the undelete file sys- tem available. Recovery of deleted files is only avail- able on ext2 file systems. The undelete file system is just an interface to the ext2fs library to: retrieve all of the deleted files names on an ext2fs and provides and to extract the selected files into a regular partition. To use this file system, you have to chdir into the spe- cial file name formed by the "/#undel" prefix and the file name where the actual file system resides. For example, to recover deleted files on the second parti- tion of the first scsi disk on Linux, you would use the following path name: /#undel:sda2 It may take a while for the undelfs to load the required information before you start browsing files there. Hope this helps,
From Jose L. Rojano to suse-linux-e@suse.com about [SLE] How to undelete...:
Hi all!
While I was cleaning one of my filesystems, I accidentally deleted some files (with the midnight commander "F8" hot key, which i suppose it's like the "rm " command) How can I recover my lost files?
Best regards,
Jose.
-- dieter