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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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