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sliverstorm on May 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup

Or a hacker with the right tools (assuming such tools exist for the nix file systems - they certainly do for fat32 and NTFS)*

*nix file systems purge the file immediately, unless it is still opened by some program. fat32 deletes the entry from the file allocation table, and the data is eventually overwritten as new files fill that same location.

scott_s on May 14, 2012 [–]

The metadata may be zeroed out, but I'm unaware of standard Unix file systems that will zero out the contents of the files.

spudlyo on May 14, 2012 | [–]

Linux filesystems like ext(2|3|4) don't zero the contents of the data blocks, and you can use tools to recover the data.

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