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		scott_s on May 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup The metadata may be zeroed out, but I'm unaware of standard Unix file systems that will zero out the contents of the files.

spudlyo on May 14, 2012 [–]

Linux filesystems like ext(2|3|4) don't zero the contents of the data blocks, and you can use tools to recover the data.

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