Re: [Sheflug] Recovering a deleted file

[Jon Masters <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Matthew Collins wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:53:03PM +0100, Nicola Richmond wrote:
> > Sorry for not specifying the file system. Unfortunately it's ext3 so I
> > think there's little hope.  
> 
> Apart from the Journal file ext3 and ext2 have little else changed in
> on-disk structures.

Can anyone confirm whether ext3 is more aggressive about how it reuses
free'd inodes? I thought there were a few subtle differences.

In general I agree that it is still worth giving it a try.
Of course we are assuming this is a box that you can easily power off!

The one thing I try to avoid is entering paths during deletion beginning
from the front rather favouring to start with the name and then the front
of the path name - especially when being root - so as to avoid pressing
enter too soon or some such. I also try not to keep "rm" in my history.

Jon.

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