content: Linux is no better about this in my experience. Unless you are encrypting your files or filesystems (at least one of which is possible on Wingdings too), you can just mount another *nix fs and snoop around, or even chroot into it. EDIT: I have also done this on an older OSX disk. I have no idea which version of the OS it was running, but Apple has been using the same filesystem for quite some time now.