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I accidentally deleted an important file from a Linux system that I'd really want to recover. The main problem is that machine is a critical system that cannot be shut down nor can the relevant partition be unmounted. That file is relatively small (a Python script) so there's a good chance it wasn't already overwritten. What is the best method of approaching this?

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    You best bet would be to recover from backup... File recovery tools are usually not designed to be used on mounted partitions.
    – mtak
    Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 13:42

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Update - Solved by bgrep'ing on the entire disk for a known string.

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    Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 23:13

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