toothandnail has packaged testdisk, a partition and data recovery suite, for VL 5.9. He adds:
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Warning: I originally built this to fix a dead Windows box, which it did very well. However, testdisk is potentially dangerous, and, since I do not use reiserfs, has only been tested with xfs. No warranties are given - if you break it, you own both halves. Use at your own risk....."
Package: testdisk-6.10-i586-1vl59.tlz
MD5: 4247695a60ff393be88e4a4991cd5b5a
Package Size: 1053K
Installed Size: 4140K
Sources:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.9/source/testing/base-apps/testdisktestdisk: testdisk (a partition and data recovery suite)
testdisk:
testdisk: testdisk checks partition and boot sectors of disks, and is very
testdisk: useful in recovering lost partitions. Its companion, photorec is a
testdisk: file data recovery software originally designed to recover pictures
testdisk: from digital camera memory. It has now been extended to search for
testdisk: other lost data.
testdisk: License: GPL
testdisk: Authors: Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
testdisk: Website: http://www.cgsecurity.org
After testing this package please stop back here and let us know how it works for you.
