i just did a rm -rf /*r as root!!!

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

> On 4/23/05, Robert Nichols <rnichols42 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> bruce wrote:
> [..]
>> I fear that any attempt at undeletion is doomed to failure.  On an
>> ext3 file system, metadata is zeroed when a file is deleted, so
>> even if you find the deleted inodes, the lists of block numbers
>> won't be there any longer.  Yes, I just verified that on an ext3 file
>> system.  Successful undeletion is possible with ext2, but not with
>> ext3.
> [..]
>
> ext3 is "better" than ext2, I assume, because 3>2 ;)
> Why, then, does ext2 have a feature ext3 lacks?

some people myself included don't see being able to recover deleted 
data as a  feature. When something is gone, it should be gone.

>
> thanks,
>
> Thufir
>
>

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