<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:38:08 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [kwlug-disc] FLOSS Fund Nomination: TestDisk & PhotoRec<BR></FONT><BR>On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:34:20PM -0500, Chris Irwin wrote:<BR>> I've had a data catastrophe, which was averted without any issue (but<BR>> not without panic and worry) thanks to TestDisk.<BR>> <BR>> I deleted all my partitions, instead of all my *unused* partitions. One<BR>> of which was an LVM physical volume, housing my *current* root<BR>>
filesytem. Test Disk was able to scan the disk and detect the original<BR>> partition and recreate the partition entry for it, preserving the<BR>> partition (and the data on it).<BR>> <BR>> The author, Christophe Grenier, also has a somewhat related utility<BR>> called PhotoRec, which does a similar operation for files. It can scan a<BR>> disk and recover files, even in cases where the filesystem is corrupted!<BR>> (combined with dd_rescue, it can recover from failing disks as well)<BR>> I've used it to rescue photos from damaged SD cards in the past, as well<BR>> as a USB disk that was reformatted by accident.<BR>> <BR>> These utilities have saved myself a lot of headaches (and once<BR>> registered me as a miracle-worker with a previous boss). I've created a<BR>> nomination entry on the website:<BR>> <BR>> <A href="http://kwlug.org/node/857" target=_blank>http://kwlug.org/node/857</A><BR>>
<BR><BR>Great nomination. Photorec has worked some miracles for me too, and I<BR>did not even know it was open source. I have added the nomination to<BR>the queue. Unfortunately according to the rules greedy old Andrew gets<BR>the March slot, but you get April. <BR><BR>- Paul<BR></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">I fully support that nomination, Me, my father and a few friends have been very happy when they find that their files can be recovered.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">When it is my kids friends (or gf) I always provide the standard disclaimer "It will recover even the pictures you thought you really wanted deleted, should I proceed?"</div>
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