On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 03:31 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
On 17/06/06, William L. Maltby BillsCentOS@triad.rr.com wrote:
Name : testdisk Arch : i386
BTW, just occurred to me: other arch's have issues? Have easy ways to recover? Is there commonality between HD mapping such that *some* other archs could benefit from a port or extension to the software (assuming it's decent to start with)? Maybe insufficient number of potential beneficiaries?
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Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS
MBR, master, boot, recover, restore, lost, damaged, unerase.
FWIW it (and Photorec) got the NTK seal of approval...
It's *always* appreciated when one takes the time to contribute, IMO. I thank you.
Yep. Unfortunately, it sounds a whole lot like they just appreciated that someone made the effort. They didn't mention (much less offer links to) any evaluation's results. So, I still think some investigation & testing is warranted. And, since I have written software to do exactly this sort of thing (in the *looooooong*-ago past) and have more recent experience related to automated install/recovery, I have some "fuzzy" ideas about what I hope it's doing. I also have an *excellent* record (in my past life) of breaking things through maximum use in unexpected, but totally "legal-per-the-docs", manners (mostly IBM S-360/370 mainframe and early UNIX - PWB V6/7) software.
Unfortunately, it was usually unintentional. I can't be sure how effective I'd be at doing it on purpose! :-)
As mentioned in my earlier, IG2IASARUSEBM2I (I'll Get To It As Soon As Reasonable Unless Someone Else Beats Me To It- my contribution of "Obfuscating Venue-specific Acronyms" - OVA) >:-O
Hmmm. Maybe I better drink another coffee before reading the rest of Sunday morning's mail.
Will.
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