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TESTDISK

Section: Administration Tools (1)
Updated: June
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NAME

testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions

SYNOPSIS

testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump]

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