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

Sat Jun 17 19:52:52 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

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
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