22 Mar
2021
22 Mar
'21
19:16
Now that we are on an "old anecdotes about $FSTYPE" subthread... ;-) On 22.03.21 09:50, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
What recovery tools make or can make out of the remaining pieces is a different topic, and filesystems do well when they have certain placement strategies and/or signatures (hi XFS) that work in favor of extraction tools' heuristics.
Actually "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree ..." was often able to "undelete" long-deleted files, IIUC because reiserfs had no such strategies and thus the fsck had to guess what it was that it had found anyway :-) Best regards, -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman