How To Install extundelete on Fedora 34

extundelete is An ext3 and ext4 file system undeletion utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install extundelete on Fedora 34.

What is extundelete

extundelete is a utility that can recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 partition. extundelete uses the information stored in the partition’s journal to attempt to recover a file that has been deleted from the partition. There is no guarantee that any particular file will be able to be undeleted, so always try to have a good backup system in place, or at least put one in place after recovering your files!

We can use yum or dnf to install extundelete on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install extundelete.

Install extundelete on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install extundelete using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install extundelete

Install extundelete on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install extundelete using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install extundelete

How To Uninstall extundelete on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the extundelete package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove extundelete

extundelete Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/extundelete
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/fbdb12b88d46e28f6a31d72a43b210a9b8d2d9
/usr/share/doc/extundelete
/usr/share/doc/extundelete/README
/usr/share/licenses/extundelete
/usr/share/licenses/extundelete/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install extundelete on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.