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From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Recovering files from FreeBSD
Date: 13 Feb 1996 12:36:52 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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In article <4foobe$a4j@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>It is possible to implement this type of thing at the FS level,
>but doing so would require a "purge" facility, and probably an
>"auto-purge" mechanism for auto-recovery of disk space (LRU
>based).

Linux EXT2 supports undelete, both in the filesystem
and using a tool called midnight commander.

Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
   nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu