Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Can I retrieve my SSL key?

[Adam Carter]

> photorec, from the testdisk package, will retrieve all files from a
> filesystem, deleted or otherwise. However it doesn't retrieve the names
> so finding the right one will be fun :-O Grep will help immensely.

This implies that the new file data is not written over to the top of
the old file - is that typically the case? Is it file system
dependent?

Is the file overwrite something like;
- write new file data to spare blocks
- move filename (hardlink) to point to the new block location