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Re: Is there a 'trashcan' type of application for RH5.0?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Wed Nov 4 17:42:01 1998

Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 14:11:19 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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KThorpe wrote:
> 
> We are considering, after many long years of faithful service, the
> retirement of our Novell server. The one thing we would miss is the fact
> that Novell servers hold on to deleted files until the disk space is needed.
> 
> Is there an application to perform this sort of function, saving files in a
> holding area until disk space runs out? Simply replacing rm with a shell
> script isn't enough - we require this behaviour via mars_nwe or samba.

Not a lot of help, but check out the Ext2fs Undeletion mini-howto, it
may have something that will point you in the right direction.

	http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html


J


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