El Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:07:52PM +0530 nidhi mittal hada ha dit:
> I created a loop device
> /dev/loop0 ------------>with the image file ---------->file.img
> then
> mkfs and
> mount /dev/loop0 to /mnt
>
> cd /mnt
> created files a.c , b.c
> rm file.img ------- removed file.img
>
> cd /mnt
> still i am able to see a.c b.c here
> How are these files present here ?
> they should have been deleted as underlying storage file is no where
> present !!
by deleting the file you only remove its meta-information stored in
an inode of the file system, but you don't erase the data blocks the
inode is pointing to.
best regards
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