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I wish to recover a deleted file from my ext2 partition. The tools extundelete and testdisk are unsuccessful.

Now I try to use debugfs as

$ debugfs /dev/sda5

but I get Permission denied while opening filesystem. Now if I run it with sudo or in a root shell, then I do not even get a prompt in debugfs and only Ctrl+Cworks.

How can I recover my file from ext2 partition? How can I make debugfs work? Is what happens in my case a bug?

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the tool named e2undel did it, if you want to recover from ext2, this is the way: e2undel.sourceforge.net – nlognfan Aug 26 '12 at 16:45

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