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Re:NGS: Next Generation Unix Shell by ParrotyError on Thursday April 21, 2016 @03:53PM (#11544912)
Back in the 90s (IIRC) someone wrote a kernel module for linux that provided the equivalent of a GUI "trash can/recycling bin" but at the filesystem level, where a specific directory (folder for you young 'uns) was set aside for the deleted files. Because it was a kernel module (filesystem driver) it was transparent to applications, including the shell.
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Re:NGS: Next Generation Unix Shell by botw on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:44AM (#11550021)
lost+found? it's still there in each file system but i never see a real usage for it.
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Re:NGS: Next Generation Unix Shell by Crespyl on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:32PM (#11551442)
I believe that's less an everyday-use "trashcan" and more of an ext* feature for recovering from filesystem corruption; "Something broke and I think I've recovered all the files, but I've forgotten where some of them were supposed to go".
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