the ext2 inode has a field i_dtime which is the deletion time.
Until today i thought that the deletion of a file removes the inode.
So does anyone know what the sense of this field is?
Thanks!
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the ext2 inode has a field i_dtime which is the deletion time.
Until today i thought that the deletion of a file removes the inode.
So does anyone know what the sense of this field is?
Thanks!
From [1]:
The inode is marked as deleted by writing the i_dtime. Special fs tools [2] can analyse the file system and may still restore files by looking at those marked inodes — until they are actually overwritten.