Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ext2 not NULLing deleted files? | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 17 Aug 2001 03:47:43 -0400 |
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On 17 Aug 2001 09:38:10 +0200, Enver Haase wrote: > I just recognized there's an "undelete" now for ext2 file systems [a KDE > app]. > > "The Other OS" in its professional version does of course clear the deleted > blocks with 0's for security reasons; I would have bet a thousand bucks Linux > would do so, too [seems I should have read the source code, good thing no-one > wanted to take on the bet :) ].
By "The Other OS" I assume you mean NT. NT does _not_ zero files on delete, either with NTFS or anything else. It merely unlinks them like any other OS. I can't think of anything that nullifies files, except utilities meant solely to do that (often called "sweeping").
Do you have any idea how long it would take to zero files? If you removed even a moderately sized directory, it would take a _very long_ time.
-- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net
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