Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

charles zeitler cfzeitler at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 00:12:56 UTC 2011


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shall  be the whole  of the Law.


On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> On 08/28/2011 10:41 AM, Tim wrote:
>> It removes the file, or directory, from the directory*listing*  (the
>> list of what's on the disc).  It doesn't actually remove the file (or
>> directory).
>
> AIUI, it also frees up the inodes to be used again.  A deleted file can
> be recovered if *and only if* they haven't been reused.

for filesystems that use inodes.

charles zeitler

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