I need help with Scalpel

[houshdaran]

please help

I just type this:

sudo scalpel /dev/sda2 -o /media/m
and got this error
:
Scalpel version 1.60
Written by Golden G. Richard III, based on Foremost 0.69.
ERROR: You have attempted to use a non-empty output directory. In order
to maintain forensic soundness, this is not allowed

[houshdaran]

hi.
please help

I just type this:

sudo scalpel /dev/sda2 -o /media/m
and got this error
:
Scalpel version 1.60
Written by Golden G. Richard III, based on Foremost 0.69.
ERROR: You have attempted to use a non-empty output directory. In order
to maintain forensic soundness, this is not allowed

Please also tell me how to "foremost".I also get such an error when foremost.I need some deleted files

[cariboo]

Moved to General Help, as the Cafe is not a support forum.

[MelDJ]

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[zircon214]

ERROR: You have attempted to use a non-empty output directory.That means you need to create a new, empty directory for the program to output to.

mkdir /media/m/out
sudo scalpel /dev/sda2 -o /media/m/out

[lisati]

Thread moved to "General Help"

[cariboo]

Please don't create multiple threads on the same subject, I have merged your two threads.

[houshdaran]

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How?