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Why is the data not recoverable? Maybe things have changed, but rm doesn't zero out the drive. And with the backup that was rm too it should all be recoverabl

• __david__ 11y ago
  Most of the data is probably still there on the drive. But the filesystem data that says where it all actually is stored is probably irreplaceably gone. If some of that can be recovered then it should be possible to recreate individual files. Without it someone would have to guestimate where all the files are and then maybe manually piece them together (a single file may be in fragments in different parts of the disk). They'd also have to differentiate old deleted versions of files from the most recent deleted versions. So yeah, it could technically be recovered, but it's going to be a very big chore.
• Qantourisc 11y ago
  Not directly no, but some FS give you a hard time to recover the file structure, which in some cases is a big problem. You could probably recover files, but if the backups aren't stored in a tar/zip/... file, it will be hard to recover both the data and the structure.