Talk:Undeletion

message: Is this statement fair?
"Undeletion was supported by MS-DOS, but is not supported by most modern UNIX file systems"
What about Testdisk and PhotoRec?
I was going to give up goggling for UNIX undelete tools after reading that statement but now am not sure that its true.
Maybe if it was said Unix operating systems are not generally bundled with Undeletetion support but tools have arisen such as Testdisk and PhotoRec?
Or is there something I am misunderstanding here?
:Technically it is true; recent Unix file systems generally make no provisions for restoring removed files. File content often can be reconstructed with some magic, but it is not a feature of the file system. I remember somewhere that either the ext2 or ext3 even zeros out the inode structure on disk, making reconstruction much harder.
:The original FAT file system just removed the files' blocks from the used list and even left directory entries intact, merely replacing the first letter of the filename with a "?". These ?-files would be ignored in normal directory listings, but could be used by undelete programs to recognize deleted files. -- intgr [talk] 07:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Undeletion on Unix

message: Many people in the world believe that the correct term for 'undelete' is in actual fact 'restore'.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.22.151.244 (talk) 14:18, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Who?  Do you have a source that "restore" is the correct term?  I just did a quick Google search and even if "undelete" isn't a dictionary word it still appears to be commonly used. Also, please don't just add commentary to an article, it is sufficient to discuss it here on the talk page, thanks. swaq 15:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restore 

message: In the history and Talk:Undeletion#NTFS_undeletion above, I see some conflict about whether to list specific tools.  Some (but not all) additions seem to be linkspam, although I didn't check.
I believe it would help to clarify whether/where/which undeletion tools should be listed.  Example phrases I imagine might suit a template,
* This page does not attempt to list specific <foo> tools.
* Lists of undeletion tools may be found at "List of <foo> tools"
* Wikipedia suggests the Open Directory Project for categorised lists of <foo>.
* This page lists certain notable or ground-breaking tools.
* This page also lists a few <foo> tools currently available for common computer platforms, but cannot make recommendations.
Is there such a template?  Is it necessary to form a policy first?
I believe the lack of an explicit policy has allowed space for conflict. -- Silicosaurus (talk) 22:02, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  To list or not to list specific software? (more general than just [[Undeletion]]) 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Much of the article is written assuming undeletion works in the same way it does on FAT file systems: some or all of the metadata is preserved if not yet overwritten, and may be recovered. Mention is made of other systems, but some paragraphs appear to ignore them. Also, "Undeletion is possible on all FAT file systems" is rather too strong a statement; a more balanced view is given elsewhere, but... well, the whole article wants editing for presentation quality. Snapshotting filesystems are mentioned under a heading of "Graphical Systems" which is absurd but probably not intentional. More tentatively, a longer list of snapshotting filesystems might be nice. I'd do it all myself but I'm not quite with it now. eekee (talk) 14:48, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality problems