|
|
Log in / Subscribe / Register

Recovering deleted files from ext3

Recovering deleted files from ext3

Posted Mar 20, 2008 4:51 UTC (Thu) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)
In reply to: Recovering deleted files from ext3 by quotemstr
Parent article: Recovering deleted files from ext3

Why would shred work on a journaling filesystem like ext3? A point noted in shred's man page.

to post comments

Recovering deleted files from ext3

Posted Mar 20, 2008 10:21 UTC (Thu) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link] 

Actually shred works fine on ext3 in default configurations, i.e. as long as you are only
doing 'writeback' of data, meaning that filesystem metadata is journalled but file contents
metadata is not.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3 and in particular
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Talk:Shred


Copyright © 2026, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds