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

[William L. Maltby]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 03:31 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> On 17/06/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at 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?

> > <snip>

> >  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.

> 
> http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02006-06-09&l=116#l

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.
> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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