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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 and Ext3
          - 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

OPTIONS

       /log   create a testdisk.log file

       /debug add debug information

       /dump  dump raw sectors

       /list  display current partitions

SEE ALSO

       fdisk(1), photorec(1).

AUTHOR

       TestDisk 6.11, Data Recovery Utility, April 2009
       Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
       http://www.cgsecurity.org