Hi, Thanks for your reply. The file system type is xfs. And I found xfsdump/xfsrestore can undo the remove. I use dd to copy the partition as one image file. How do I mount the image as read-only device? Then I can try to recover the deleted files/directory anytime. Thanks! Regards Andrew At 2020-09-16 20:36:44, "Jonathan Billings" <billings at negate.org> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 07:21:08PM +0800, qw wrote: >> I remove one directory by running rm -fr ./some-dir. How to restore >> the directory and its files in the directory? > >If you don't have backups, then you're pretty much out of luck. Don't >forget to back up any data that is important, and test your backups >regularly! > >Depending on the filesystem, there might be ways to recover it, but >the first thing you need to do is stop using the disk the files were >on. Power it off. There are some tools that you can use to recover >it, but it's not 100% effective. > >If it's very important and you are willing to spend money, there are >data recovery services that might be able to extract the data. > >-- >Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos