

In another comment, OP said they checked the arch wiki, specifically https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_recovery. The arch wiki is a great resource; most of the information is not arch-specific and is useful for linux in general.
Regarding “let’s try sudo”: you should get familiar with sudo because it’s one of the most important linux commands. It runs a command with elevated privileges (it originally stood for “super-user do”). That means sudo isn’t actually the important part of the commands; it just means that the following commands (pacman and photorec) need elevated privileges. pacman deals with systemwide package management and photorec needs access to the raw storage device objects in order to recover files.












Please don’t use an LLM for factual information, especially information that can easily be looked up. In this case, the list is slightly wrong. Comparing to the committee’s website, the following people on the list are not on the committee:
And the following are on the committee, but not on the list