Re: ext3 on encrypted device mapper

[Andreas Dilger]

On Dec 02, 2004  19:17 +0100, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
> Filesystem is encrypted using dmcrypt, the encryption framework working on top of the device mapper.
> 
> I deleted a file and immediatelly i attempted to recover it using debugfs.
> 
> Linux aaa 2.6.10-rc2 #1 Wed Dec 1 09:52:37 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> aaa:~# df -k .
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/rootfs     8676440   5278584   2957108  65% /
> 
> aaa:~# debugfs /dev/mapper/rootfs
> debugfs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> debugfs:  lsdel

Ext3 doesn't allow file undeleting (though the data on disk is not
overwritten in any way, just the metadata).  You should be happy, this
is more secure (seems you are worried about that).

Cheers, Andreas
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