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Old 12-09-2003
lost or deleted data in Unix?

Quote: "Until the space is used for another file, it is not deleted and the data can be recovered (although it may require jumping through hoops)." Unquote

I know this is true in the Windows world, but I didn't think it was true of Unix. I had always been told once it was deleted in Unix, it couldn't be recovered. However, unless Unix overwrites the data block with 000's when you delete a file, it should be recoverable. Do you know of any products available that will recover lost or deleted data in Unix?
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Old 12-10-2003
http://www.fish.com/tct/help-recovering-file

http://www.ics.uci.edu/computing/unix/selfrestore.php

These two seems to talk about some tools to recover the data in unix, just see

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