A tool for Ext? partitions.

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 03:54:09 UTC 2014


On 08/14/2014 09:32 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:55:12 -0600
> jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition
>> table
>> - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into it), and
>> determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions.
>> I need this so that I can restore each ext? partition to a separate
>> HD. So far I have found a windows based tool from EaseUS.com , but is
>> not open source and
>> is not free.
> Might try testdisk. It's in Fedora.
>
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
>
> kevin
>

Thank you Kevin.
I was not aware of this tool.
I downloaded it and will give it a spin.

Cheers,

JD


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