[CentOS] If Trying to Recover a Damaged Partition: kbs-CentOS-Extras Has a Tool

[William L. Maltby]

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
> ><snip>

> > 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
> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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