I was installing non steam games through Lutris, then I decided to uninstall a game I no longer needed I saw that 60gb was successfully deleted (don’t ask me how), please if a Linux user can help me recover it I will be extremely appreciative.

I know of a software called “testdisk” but I have no idea how to use it. Can someone reach out who has an idea how this works. Thanks.

  • LennethW@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you continued to use the device and installed other stuff, just give up.

    You will probably recover 95% of good data, and that 5% corrupted will make you literally insane.

    The use case in such a oopsie is to immediately disconnect safely a drive if external, or shutdown the device. Boot from an external boot media, and then try to carve deleted data from it.

    Also to recover that much data will require a sizable chunk’o’time.