"Norton Utilities" for ubuntu

[Steve Reilly]

Steve Reilly wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
update...... its testdisk, not testdisc sorry. if you install from the
repo it also installs photorec which is more what you need.  run it as
sudo photorec

steve