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 -------------- 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/20060617/5c3e7673/attachment-0005.sig>