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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

SEE ALSO

fdisk(8), photorec(8).

AUTHOR

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org

July 2019