Recover deleted files and undoing an rm * -rf command

On a Linux system using EXT3, EXT4, BTRFS or else there are multiple tools to recover deleted or lost files, the BTRFS file system makes the recovery process more easy and with a higher success rate compared to EXT3/EXT4 where file recovery can be sometimes impossible.

Recovery Tools - Command Line :

• testdisk (3)(5)
• photorec (3)
• extundelete (3)

Recovery Tools - Gui :

• R-Linux (2)(5)
• R-Studio (1)(5)(4)
• UFS Explorer (1)(5)(4)
• Recovery Explorer (1)(5)(4)

Infos :

In my personal experience i get my data back using “UFS Explorer” and photorec

(1) = Not open source, not free

(2) = Not open source, free

(3) = Open source and free

(4) = Have ntfs support

(5) = Have directory structure feature