Kristian Erik Hermansen on 19 Feb 2008 18:46:45 -0800 |
On Feb 19, 2008 6:29 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote: > And another one: > > When files disappear, Magic Rescue saves the day > http://www.linux.com/feature/126525 > http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/ > > From the Linux.com article, it sounds like a more primitive version of > Foremost, but I haven't tried it. Yep! I mention 'magicrescue' at the bottom of my Linux Journal article on foremost. It is a great tool. I once utilized magicrescue at Cisco to recover a database on a drive for someone that had repartitioned and reinstalled accidentally! > [1] Stuff Foremost found: Another fun one is testdisk :-) khermans@khermans-laptop:~$ aptitude show testdisk Package: testdisk State: not installed Version: 6.6-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 2687k Depends: e2fslibs, libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libjpeg62, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), libntfs9 (>= 1.13.1) Description: Partition scanner and disk recovery tool TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very useful in recovering lost partitions. It works with : * DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 * NTFS ( Windows NT/2K/XP ) * Linux Ext2 and Ext3 * BeFS ( BeOS ) * BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD ) * CramFS (Compressed File System) * HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System * JFS, IBM's Journaled File System * Linux Raid * Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2) * LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager * Netware NSS * ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6 * Sun Solaris i386 disklabel * UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...) * XFS, SGI's Journaled File System . PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks. It has been extended to search also for non audio/video headers. It searchs for * Sun/NeXT audio data (.au) * RIFF audio/video (.avi/.wav) * BMP bitmap (.bmp) * bzip2 compressed data (.bz2) * Source code written in C (.c) * Canon Raw picture (.crw) * Canon catalog (.ctg) * FAT subdirectory * Microsoft Office Document (.doc) * Nikon dsc (.dsc) * HTML page (.html) * JPEG picture (.jpg) * MOV video (.mov) * MP3 audio (MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1) (.mp3) * Moving Picture Experts Group video (.mpg) * Minolta Raw picture (.mrw) * Olympus Raw Format picture (.orf) * Portable Document Format (.pdf) * Perl script (.pl) * Portable Network Graphics (.png) * Raw Fujifilm picture (.raf) * Contax picture (.raw) * Rollei picture (.rdc) * Rich Text Format (.rtf) * Shell script (.sh) * Tar archive (.tar ) * Tag Image File Format (.tiff) * Microsoft ASF (.wma) * Sigma/Foveon X3 raw picture (.x3f) * zip archive (.zip) -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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