Bug#705220: RFP: ext4magic -- disk utility to recover files from ext3 or ext4 partitions
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Package name : ext4magic
Version : 0.3.1
Author : Roberto Maar
URL : http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ext4magic/
License : GPL
Programming Language: C
Operating System: Linux
Languages: English, German
ext4magic is a disk utility to recover files from ext3 or ext4 partitions
It is based on ext3grep and extundelete, but was rewritten from scratch. In addition to the tools just mentioned ext4magic
handles more file types, also hardlinks and symlinks
extracts and using more information from the journal and the filesystem
restores owner, group and modification time (optional file attributes) of files and directories
can try to find moved and overwritten directories and files and more then one version of a file
can extract a lot of useful information about the journal and the journal data itself
has a file carving function at the end of a multi-step recover process with different recover methods
includes functions tries to recover a partially destroyed file system.
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