I suggest that you use "photorec". It should be available in the repos of
Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch etc. I warn you - DO NOT write any data on to that
partition which contained the deleted files as the memory blocks may be
over-written. It only recovers the data. Although it detects file types, no
metadata is recovered. So, you'll lose the file names, tags in music files,
etc. Also, if you are hunting for videos, you'll have no seek. I think it is
because the metadata is used to store the video length. VLC media player can
be used to fix these broken video streams.
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