deleting from server
If you delete something from a Linux based server can the information be recovered like it can on a windows desktop. If this is possible, is there any software like cyberscrub for windows that can permanently delete info from a linux server?
Thanks for any info.
kb posted this at 02:13 — 15th February 2004.
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On Windows, when you "delete" you actually don't delete anything. It moves the file to a folder, which is basically the Recycle Bin (or whatever you re-named it). When you say "Remove Items from Recycle Bin", it then deletes them.
I don't know about Linux systems, if they do the same thing. But, if they don't, there is data recovery software you can use to recover the file, as long as the place it held on the actual hard-disk has not been written over.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 03:48 — 15th February 2004.
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If you deleted using some GUI app like Nautilus, there's a chance it's just been moved to a relative .trash folder (or maybe even in ~/). If you used rm, then I think it is permanently deleted... I don't know how it can be recovered, if at all.
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