TESTDISK(8)

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version 7.2 · 2 versions
  • 7.2 · alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian trixie, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking (latest)
  • 7.1 · debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble
, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, debian trixie, epel 10, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 TESTDISK 💖

okay bestie, so you know that moment when your partition just... vanishes? yeah. this is the girl who fixes that. testdisk is the section 8 (admin tools) queen whose whole job is scanning and repairing disk partitions. she's been around, she's seen things, and she's about to save your entire vibe. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]

testdisk /version

testdisk /list [/log]

like, that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions. no cap, that's literally the mission statement. 💖

It works with:

  • BeFS (BeOS)
  • BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
  • CramFS, Compressed File System
  • DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
  • HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
  • JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
  • Linux ext2/ext3/ext4
  • Linux Raid
    • RAID 1: mirroring
    • RAID 4: striped array with parity device
    • RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
    • RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
  • Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
  • LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
  • Mac partition map
  • Novell Storage Services NSS
  • NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
  • ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
  • Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
  • Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
  • XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

it's giving encyclopedic. she speaks every filesystem dialect and she's not even bragging. 😭

It can undelete files from:

  • DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
  • Linux ext2
  • NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)

yes bestie, undelete. the files you thought were gone forever? she might pull them back out of the void. main character energy fr fr. 👑

For more information on how to use, please visit the wiki pages on www.cgsecurity.org — that's the group chat you wanna join, iykyk. 🦋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • /log — create a testdisk.log file. receipts, but make them text. ✨
  • /debug — add debug information. for when you wanna see the drama behind the drama. 🔍
  • /dump — dump raw sectors. raw. unfiltered. no makeup. 💀
  • /list — display current partitions. a little vibe check on what's already living on your disk. 🍓

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

fdisk(8), photorec(8).

(photorec is her sister btw, she's the one who goes hunting for the actual files. tag team. 💜)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

TestDisk 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February 2024

Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>

https://www.cgsecurity.org

and that's the whole page, bestie ✨ — TestDisk 7.2, Data Recovery Utility, February 2024, from the February 2024 release, section 8 of the Administration Tools manual. go forth and recover your partitions. slay. 💅🌸

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