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File Deletion on ext4
Step through unlink, bitmaps, the journal, and how SSDs break recovery
Step 1 / 11File Exists on Disk
A file named secrets.bin lives in /mnt/data. The directory holds the filename. The inode stores metadata (size, owner, pointers to data). The data blocks hold the actual bytes. The bitmaps mark everything as allocated.
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