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 > Arch : i386 > Version: 6.3 > Release: 1.el4.kb > Size : 480 k > Repo : kbs-CentOS-Extras > 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. As time permits, I'll do some of that, as I'm > reconfig bunch of stuff all the time and have some old small disks (and > systems to match that I can resurrect... Windows95 from Genuine floppies > anybody?) and the interest. I'll add to this thread as things are > discovered. > > Anyone who has done this already, or has firsthand experience, can allow > me to continue my on-going learning of new stuff by reporting on this > package so I don't invest the time to evaluate this properly. > > This is just a bunch of searchable words, feel free to augment as > appropriate in your POV. > > MBR, master, boot, recover, restore, lost, damaged, unerase. 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. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060617/03fae576/attachment-0004.sig>