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Great time to mention tools like testdisk that can easily recover data that has been recently deleted on common filesystems.
Btrfs.
Though nothing can replace a proper backup
I would use gparted
Edit: it can only restore deleted partitions, not files. For restoring files check the documentation for your file system
Gparted can restore deleted files?
No, I had a brain pause
I dont think so... you can use it to set up deleted paritions again afaik but thats all that i know of.
GParted is not a data recovery tool. It is for disk partitioning.
It also can restore disk partitions. Whoops, I made a minor blunder
How can it restore disk partitions? You can only undo the changes you have not committed to the disk. It does not perform data recovery operations.
Nowhere have I seen restoring partitions as part of its functionality, in my usage of GParted. That seems more up the alley of Testdisk and R-Studio.
You go into tools and then recover partitions.