> Am I wrong --- In Novell, "Purging follows deletion. Deletion doesn't > automatically reclaim space, but "Purge"ing does. I suppose it's > analogous to emptying the recycle bin in windows - which alone > reclaims the disk space.
Yes this is what i also remember from my old memories of using Novell at school. When you delete its not completely deleted and you can recover the deleted file. If you purge, all the files are completely delete. Recovery in unix or linux is very much difficult..there is one kernel level patch that i had read once which allows you to recover deleted files. Otherwise in normal case its very difficult to retrieve the file (It is possible to some extent). You could have a trash like utility in shell itself, such that rm does not call the actual rm, instead it just puts everything into a thrash folder(basically a wrapper function written by you which will put everything to thrash). Check out linux gazette for this. G.Vinubalaji ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
