recover file after cat /dev/null

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recover file after cat /dev/null > file

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Subject:	recover file after cat /dev/null > file
From:	Jim Cistaro <jim.cistaro@xxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:50:28 -0700
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if /dev/null has been catted over an existing file,
is there any way to recover data based on inodes (or anything else)?

Nothing else has been written to disk since so data should still exist.

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