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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 and Ext3
– 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 

Options

/log

create a testdisk.log file

/debug

add debug information

/dump

dump raw sectors

/list

display current partitions

See Also

fdisk(1), photorec(1). .SHAUTHOR TestDisk 6.11, Data Recovery Utility, April 2009
Christophe GRENIER <grenier [at] cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org