1TESTDISK(8)                  Administration Tools                  TESTDISK(8)
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NAME

6       testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions
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SYNOPSIS

9       testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]
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13       testdisk /list [/log]
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DESCRIPTION

16          TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
17          It works with :
18          - BeFS (BeOS)
19          - BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
20          - CramFS, Compressed File System
21          - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
22          - HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
23          - JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
24          - Linux ext2/ext3/ext4
25          - Linux Raid
26            RAID 1: mirroring
27            RAID 4: striped array with parity device
28            RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
29            RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
30          - Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
31          - LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
32          - Mac partition map
33          - Novell Storage Services NSS
34          - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
35          - ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
36          - Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
37          - Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
38          - XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
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40          It can undelete files from
41          - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
42          - Linux ext2
43          - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
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OPTIONS

47       /log   create a testdisk.log file
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SEE ALSO

56       fdisk(8), photorec(8).
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AUTHOR

59       TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
60       Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
61       http://www.cgsecurity.org
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652011                                  May                          TESTDISK(8)