Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions

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Strategies for getting around flash drive limitations and updating OSs on flash drives.

Undeleting Files

Hi Klaus, Would you be able to advise what software is needed to undelete files that were deleted in error from the early version 7 persistent image file? Or, can this be done using the later versions?

Thanks, Marcus Pillifeant Maleny, Queensland, Australia

Because the problem of undeleting – or recovering – accidentally deleted files is quite often asked for, and is not specific to the Knoppix persistent image or partition, I'm going to first answer in a more general way.

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