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A small tool to recover deleted files from UFS/UFS2 filesystems on
OpenBSD. Might also work on other BSD variants, but I have not
tested this. It allows inspecting the inode table, listing of deleted
entries in a directory and dumping of data belonging to an inode.

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.Dd February 15, 2023
.Dt DUMP_INODE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm dump_inode
.Nd recover deleted files from UFS/UFS2 filesystems
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm dump_inode
.Op Fl ad
.Op Fl i Ar inode
.Op Fl o Ar outputfile
.Ar partition
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
allows recovery of deleted files by inspecting the inode table, listing of
deleted entries in a directory and dumping of data belonging to an inode.
.Pp
Generally, you would
.Xr umount 8
a filesystem from which you want to recover a deleted file, to avoid
overwriting data.
However, to recover a file with
.Nm
it is required that there is still a process that has the file open, to avoid
that the size and block numbers in the inode are cleared.
Therefore, it is necessary to keep the filesystem mounted.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl a
Iterate over the whole inode table.
Conflicts with
.Fl i Ar inode .
.It Fl d
List directory entries.
Tries to also list deleted entries.
.It Fl i Ar inode
Specify the inode.
Conflicts with
.Fl a .
.It Fl o Ar outputfile
Write the filedata of the inode to
.Ar outputfile .
Requires
.Fl i Ar inode .
Use filename - to write to stdout.
.El
.Pp
If neither
.Fl d
nor
.Fl o Ar outputfile
are specified, the default action is showing the inode content.
You must specify either
.Fl a
or
.Fl i Ar inode .
.Sh EXAMPLES
You can use
.Xr ls 1
to get the inode number of a directory:
.Pp
.Dl # ls -di example
.Dl 1671677 example
.Pp
Then use
.Nm
to list the directory and find the inode number of the deleted file:
.Pp
.Dl # dump_inode -di 1671677 sd1k
.Dl deleted:0 inode:1671677 type:d name:.
.Dl deleted:0 inode:10079295 type:d name:..
.Dl deleted:1 inode:1671678 type:f name:test
.Dl deleted:1 inode:0 type:u name:
.Pp
Otherwise, you can list directories starting from the filesystem root, which
has always inode number 2:
.Pp
.Dl # dump_inode -di 2 sd1k
.Dl deleted:0 inode:2 type:d name:.
.Dl deleted:0 inode:2 type:d name:..
.Dl deleted:0 inode:8303627 type:d name:tom
.Dl deleted:0 inode:522240 type:d name:_sysupgrade
.Dl deleted:0 inode:3 type:d name:lost+found
.Dl deleted:1 inode:1201152 type:d name:test
.Dl deleted:1 inode:8192 type:u name:
.Pp
Note, that the listing of deleted entries is based on heuristics and might be
spurious.
.Pp
If you cannot find the inode number of your file this way, you can try to dump
the whole inode table.
To find your file this way, you need some criteria to identify it e.g. files
that are deleted but still open have nlink 0 but a size that is not 0:
.Pp
.Dl # dump_inode -a sd1k | grep nlink:0 | grep -v size:0
.Dl ...
.Dl inode:1671678 type:f mode:644 nlink:0 uid:1000 gid:1000 size:5 atime:1676817142 mtime:1676817121 ctime:1676817200
.Dl ...
.Pp
Note, that this data might not be written to disk yet and your inode still has
a nlink that is not 0.
You can force writeback to disk with
.Xr sync 8 .
.Pp
Once you got the inode of your file you can recover its data:
.Pp
.Dl # dump_inode -i 1671678 -o test sd1k