1TESTDISK(1)                  Administration Tools                  TESTDISK(1)
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NAME

6       testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions
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SYNOPSIS

9       testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump]
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DESCRIPTION

14          TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
15          It works with :
16          - BeFS (BeOS)
17          - BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
18          - CramFS, Compressed File System
19          - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
20          - HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
21          - JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
22          - Linux Ext2 and Ext3
23          - Linux Raid
24            RAID 1: mirroring
25            RAID 4: striped array with parity device
26            RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
27            RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
28          - Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
29          - LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
30          - Mac partition map
31          - Novell Storage Services NSS
32          - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista)
33          - ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
34          - Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
35          - Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
36          - XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
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OPTIONS

39       /log   create a testdisk.log file
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41       /debug add debug information
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SEE ALSO

48       fdisk(1), photorec(1).
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AUTHOR

51       TestDisk 6.9, Data Recovery Utility, February 2008
52       Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
53       http://www.cgsecurity.org
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572008                               February                        TESTDISK(1)