ref: http://linshi.twbbs.org/blog/linshi/60370 filesystem: reiserfs data in /dev/hda7 0. Unmount partition from where to recover deleted files umount /home 1. Create partition copy dd if=/dev/hda7 conv=noerror > /hda7.img 2. Set up device containing copy of partition (created in 1.) losetup /dev/loop/0 /hda7.img 3. Rebuild FS tree, performing a thorough partition scan and logging to /recovery.log file reiserfsck --rebuild-tree -S -l /recovery.log /dev/loop/0 (4. Check written log file) (less /recovery.log) 5. Create directory for mounting recovered partition mkdir /recovery 6. Mount recovered partition in directory created in 5. mount /dev/loop/0 /recovery 7. Access recovered partition's lost+found directory and look for files cd /recovery/lost+found 8. If not there (7.), then look for in original directory cd /recovery/ 9. Remount /home partition mount /home 10. Copy recovered files from 7./8. to /home/ cp /recovery// /home// 11. Unmount recovered partition umount /recovery 12. Detach recovered partition device losetup -d /dev/loop/0