"Norton Utilities" for ubuntu

[John Heinen]

Steve Reilly wrote:
> Steve Reilly wrote:
>   
>> eyore15 User wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>
>> apt-cache show testdisc
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>>
>> has anyone ever used these before?
>>
>>
>> steve
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>>     
> 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
>
>   
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