How can you restore a file that has been removed? I’m not talking about just putting it in the trash can, I mean actually doing rm $file or if it was in the trash can, emptying the trash can. I’ve been told several times that this can be done as long as you don’t reuse the inode that was assigned to the file. The only problem is no one was ever able to give me the specifics on how to accomplish this and I can’t find it in any of my books or on the Sun or HP web pages. I assume it has something to do with remapping the inode to a logical (file) name somehow. That means I would have to also know what inode represented the file and I know I can get that by doing an ls -i in the important directories. This isn’t something I need right now, I just want the anser for my own knowledge in case I do need it one day.
