On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:26, Bill Bennett wrote: > In the old days, MS deleted a file by clipping the leading > letter and substituting a token that stood for "deleted". > > You can't undelete a file in Linux. Is this because the file > has been shredded? I ask not because I want to undelete, but > because I have some sensitive data files that I have deleted > and *don't* want resurrected at any later date.
Depending on the filesystem, you *can* undelete in Linux. There's HOWTOs on it and everything. :-) But, in my experience at least, deleted inodes get re-used reasonably quickly. You'll probably find that deleted files become unrecoverable in Linux much faster than in Windows. If you want to make sure your sensitive stuff doesn't get undelete, then use the shred command. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
