"Norton Utilities" for ubuntu

[Steve Reilly]

eyore15 User wrote:
> I had occasion today to over-write a file I really needed.  I thought how 
> convenient it would be to have file recovery utility like Norton Rescue.  
> I'm pretty sure there is something out there, I just don't know what to 
> call it.  Ideally it would be in the Synaptic repositories.
> 
> Can you offer me any hope?
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 on a PS4HT at 3.2.
> 
> tnx
> 
> mcm
> 
> mark c. miller
> 
> 
at first i was going to suggest debugfs, but its been a long time since
ive worked with it and only works with ext2 last i knew.  came across
these you may want to look at, looks like a couple nice cross platform
projects.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

looks like testdisc is in the ubuntu repo


apt-cache show testdisc


has anyone ever used these before?


steve