Linux cli command testdisk

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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 <[email protected]>
https://www.cgsecurity.org

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