On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 14:52 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:13 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
Recently (and for ages, I'm sure) folks have suffered partition destruction and had to try and recover. In the recent thread, the victim eventually had to resort to Google and fond some package that I can not remember now.
Well, I was perusing my YumInfo.lst.05, for general info, and I discovered this (potential) little gem. Thought I would pass it on and make it "more googleable" by adding a few keywords at the end of this. Here's the info summary.
Name : testdisk
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Summary: Tool to check and undelete partition Description: 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
I hope it actually "looks for file-system key stuff" instead of just examining the damaged blocks (often just missing the 0x05 (?) valid flag). If so, it looks "Mahvelous Dahling!" to me. We just need to get some time to exercise this, create some test cases and find out how really good it is. <snip>
If this tool does good stuff, post the results here and I will include testdisk on the CentOS-4.4 Live CD when it is built.
Will do. Patience is keyword. As you know I am learning anew *many* things. I'll slot this in somewhere soon.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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