testdisk

TESTDISK(8) Administration Tools TESTDISK(8)

NAME

   testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions

SYNOPSIS

   testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]

   testdisk /version

   testdisk /list [/log]

DESCRIPTION

      TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
      It works with :
      - BeFS (BeOS)
      - BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
      - CramFS, Compressed File System
      - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
      - HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
      - JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
      - Linux ext2/ext3/ext4
      - Linux Raid
        RAID 1: mirroring
        RAID 4: striped array with parity device
        RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
        RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
      - Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
      - LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
      - Mac partition map
      - Novell Storage Services NSS
      - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
      - ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
      - Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
      - Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
      - XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

      It can undelete files from
      - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
      - Linux ext2
      - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)

      For more information on how to use, please visit the wiki pages on www.cgsecurity.org

OPTIONS

   /log   create a testdisk.log file

   /debug add debug information

   /dump  dump raw sectors

   /list  display current partitions