[im3w1l]

Just wanted to remind everyone that deleted files can be recovered until their space is reclaimed for something else.

So if you notice something like this happening, shut down computer asap, so they can't be overwritten. Plug drive into another computer but do not mount it. Instead run some file recovery program on it.

For an SSD it becomes murkier though, what with their trimming and automatic garbage collection.

[nodata]

Yeah if you have time to manually guess the filenames on half a million files. Great.

[im3w1l]

$ extundelete /dev/sda{n} --restore-all