Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:13:18 06/25/02
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On June 25, 2002 at 00:27:00, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 24, 2002 at 22:04:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Not in unix that I know of. ls -l shows _all_ files. There are no "deleted" >>files in unix... > >I thought you had to do ls -a to get all files, and ls -l was just the long file >listing. Does -l give you all files in the long file listing format? And there >are too deleted files in unix. For only a few thousand dollars per KB of data, >there are companies that will gladly retrieve your data for you :) > >Russell ls -a shows files that start with a "." character. ls by itself does not... And there are _no_ deleted files in unix. When you delete a file, that free block (or blocks) of space are stuck on the front of a list. The next file block that is requested will be one of those and it will be overwritten. There is _no_ way to get that data back. If you RM a file and instantly power off the machine, you might have a chance to get the data back although the order will be corrupted. If you wait 30 seconds it is _gone_, period.
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