Re: EXT2_UNRM_FL

Steven Roberts (strobert@ata-sd.com)
Thu, 04 Mar 1999 12:53:57 -0800

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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