Deleted file marker

Lakshmipathi.G lakshmipathi.g at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 03:30:51 UTC 2010


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.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 15:58:13 -0400,
>  Kevin Gutch <krg9263 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a marker to indicate a deleted file in EXT3 similar to FAT32's
> E5?
>
> 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.
>
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