December 2005
Beginner
480 pages
13h 27m
English
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Hack #97. Recover Deleted Files
Deleting a file doesn't make it lost forever. Here's a quick method for finding deleted text files.
Sooner or later everyone has an "oh no second" when they realize that they've just deleted a critical file. The best feature of old Windows and DOS boxes was that they used a simplistic File Allocation Table (FAT) filesystem that made it easy to recover deleted files. Files could easily be recovered because they weren't immediately deleted: deleting a file just marked its entries as unused in the file allocation table; the blocks that contained the file data might not be reused until much later. Zillions of utilities were available to undelete files by reactivating their FAT entries.
Linux filesystems are significantly more sophisticated than FAT filesystems, which has the unfortunate side effect of complicating the recovery of deleted files. When you delete a file, the blocks associated with that file are immediately returned to the free list, which is a bitmap maintained by each filesystem that shows blocks that are available for allocation to new or expanded files. Luckily, the fact that any Linux/Unix device can be accessed as a stream of characters gives you the chance to recover deleted files using standard Linux/Unix utilities—but only if you act quickly!
This hack focuses on explaining how to recover lost text files from partitions on your hard drive. Text files are the easiest type of file to recover, because you can use standard Linux/Unix utilities ...
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