Recover ext4 filenames

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Mar 15, 20261989 views

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I have a corrupted ext4 file system that had ~7 TiB of data on it. Using photorec, I was able to recover usable data, but all the filenames are gone. Is there a tool that would let me recover the file names? Getting the actual data back would be a plus but not strictly necessary.

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I managed to rescue not only the filenames, but (almost) the entire file system using the (magical!) debugfs tool. It's essentially an interactive interface to low level file system operations. It wouldn't "open" my file system with a corrupted supe…

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Recover ext4 filenames

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