Subj : Re: Ugh
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Thu Feb 27 2025 15:56:42

-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to digimaus <=-

 KW> Does file undeletion still work with modern file systems? I remember
 KW> with FAT it was easy, the file just had a $ as the first character.

ext4 immediately clears the inode for the deleted file so unless you can
undelete it immediately, it's likely gone forever if you do any disk usage
after the deletion before you try to undelete it.

-- Sean

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