>From my understanding, restoring a file after deletion would be very >complicated because files aren't stored in a "sequential" fashion...
When you delete a file, the inode for the file is removed.. (assuming there wasn't another hard link to it...)... That inode contained the only list of blocks that were allocated for that file. As you can see, The data remains on the drive.. but as Chris Kuethe said... do you like jigsaw puzzles? -Nix Fan.
