Am 26. Apr, 2007 schwätzte Kevin Faulkner so:

> Yes, thank you very much. That did help me out. Are there any kind of
> limitations with using SATA and sdparm? Or is it treated exactly the
> same way a SCSI device is? (I guess I'm asking are there certain options
> which are specific to SCSI devices). I really wouldn't want to loose my
> data from my hard drive because, because of a stupid mistake I made.
> Gee, didn't Hans mention at the last East side meeting that there should
> be some kind of Data Rescue/Recovery, committee (for lack of a better
> term)

Here's a short list of some data recovery type tools.

. foremost - a forensics application to recover data
. gddrescue - the GNU data recovery tool
. gpart - Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
. sleuthkit - Tools for forensics analysis
. autopsy - graphical interface to SleuthKit
. dcfldd - enhanced version of dd for forensics and security
. dares - rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs (ncurses-interface)
. ddrescue - copies data from one file or block device to another
.. apparently there are two packages: dd_rescue and ddrescue
. magicrescue - recovers files by looking for magic bytes
. sleuthkit - Tools for forensics analysis
. tct - Forensics related utilities.
. recover - Undelete files on ext2 partitions
. e2undel - »Undelete«-Programm für das ext2-Dateisystem
. ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things in NTFS partitions from Linux

A couple had GUI interfaces packaged, but I didn't list them.

> Would anyone be interested?

I think data recover is a great topic. Lynn probably agree :).

ciao,

der.hans
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