If you are interested in - how ext3 file system handles deleted files - ext3 doesnt have special indicator to represent deleted files. If you interested in recovery,then as Bruno suggested try Carlo woods "ext3grep" which uses journal to recover files. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III <<a href="mailto:bruno@wolff.to">bruno@wolff.to</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 15:58:13 -0400, Kevin Gutch <<a href="mailto:krg9263@gmail.com">krg9263@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Is there a marker to indicate a deleted file in EXT3 similar to FAT32's E5? </div>It is generally a good idea to ask questions at a higher level unless you are interested in exactly that information. One might guess based on your question that you are really interested in recovering deleted files and not the specific structure of ext3 file systems. If that is the case, then you might want to take a look at ext3grep, which is packaged for Fedora. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ext3-users@redhat.com">Ext3-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- ---- Cheers, Lakshmipathi.G FOSS Programmer. <a href="http://www.giis.co.in">www.giis.co.in</a>