Kristian Erik Hermansen on 19 Feb 2008 18:46:45 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] "unerase" for linux ext3?


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
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