On 4/23/05, Robert Nichols <rnichols42@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > bruce wrote: [..] > I fear that any attempt at undeletion is doomed to failure. On an > ext3 file system, metadata is zeroed when a file is deleted, so > even if you find the deleted inodes, the lists of block numbers > won't be there any longer. Yes, I just verified that on an ext3 file > system. Successful undeletion is possible with ext2, but not with > ext3. [..] ext3 is "better" than ext2, I assume, because 3>2 ;) Why, then, does ext2 have a feature ext3 lacks? thanks, Thufir
