On 12:32:58 Dec 29, Unix Fan wrote: > 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? >
I get you but I have read mails on the local LUG where people speak about linux tools that do the dirty job for you. They perhaps scour the disk and rebuild the list of inodes and link them. I dunno. I don't recollect the name of the tool though. -Girish
