Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Mar 1999 12:53:57 -0800 | From | Steven Roberts <> | Subject | Re: EXT2_UNRM_FL |
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David Luyer wrote: > I still don't get what's insufficient about the current undelete tools; > debugfs's lsdel and so on were perfectly sufficient for the two files I've > ever wanted to undelete. For longer term undeletes, backups are the only > option anyway if you have a decent amount of disk usage.
lemme guess, they were relatively small files (no indirect blocks) currently (can someone confirm/deny weteher or not 2.2 still does this) the kernel zeros the indirect block entries on delete. This makes recovering a big file not as nice.
Steve
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