[PLUG] Restore deleted file on Samba share (ext2, RH 7.0)

[Richard C. Steffens]

Mel wrote:

> Did you empty the Recycle Bin on the Win98 machine? If not, I think you 
> have the option to restore the file.

Thanks for the thought, but Win98 doesn't store deleted files in the 
Recycle Bin if those files were on another machine. There is an updated 
version of Samba that adds that capability, but I have not installed it.

Once deleted, they are "gone" in the sense that they are not visible to 
the file system utilities, like Explorer. However, just as in Windows, 
they are sitting there on the drive unchanged, but just unreferenced. I 
don't work at that level often enough to remember what Linux calls the 
little boxes on the hard drive that hold parts of files and, more 
importantly, how to look at them and reclaim them before they are reused 
for some other file. Even back in the days of DOS, there was a Norton 
tool to recover erased files simply by changing the first character in 
the filename from (something that meant unused) back to what it used to 
be. There's a similar concept in Linux (although not quite that simple) 
but I can't remember what it's called so I can go read the man page 
about how to recover the deleted files.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens