Bug#969495: Unable to recover file with extundelete

2020-09-03 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
reassign 969495 extundelete thanks extundelete works by trying to look at the journal and tries to figure out how to find old metadata blocks left over in older transactions in the jbd2 journal file. It's not part of e2fsprogs, but its own separate package. The extundelete program is a massive a

Bug#969495: Unable to recover file with extundelete

2020-09-03 Thread Jonas Jensen
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.44.5-1+deb10u3 (armhf) A deleted file can not be recovered on EXT4 partitions when created using the "64bit" and "metadata_csum" flags. See test case below, I run Debian 10 buster on a BananaPi BPI-M1. The EXT4 partition is re-created on the same drive and partition.