Johnny Hughes spake the following on 6/17/2006 12:52 PM: > 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. > I have used it a time or two, and was fairly impressed. It is a useful tool and should be in the live CD. It is on many other rescue CD's. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!