On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
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?
some people myself included don't see being able to recover deleted data as a feature. When something is gone, it should be gone.
thanks,
Thufir
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