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.TH TESTDISK 8 @TESTDISKDATE@ "Administration Tools"
.SH NAME
testdisk \- Scan and repair disk partitions
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]
.sp
.BI "testdisk /version
.sp
.BI "testdisk /list [/log]
.SH DESCRIPTION
   \fBTestDisk\fP checks and recovers lost partitions
   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 can undelete files from
   - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
   - Linux ext2
   - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)

   For more information on how to use, please visit the wiki pages on www.cgsecurity.org
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B /log
create a testdisk.log file
.TP
.B /debug
add debug information
.TP
.B /dump
dump raw sectors
.TP
.B /list
display current partitions
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR fdisk (8),
.BR photorec (8).
.BR
.SH AUTHOR
TestDisk @VERSION@, Data Recovery Utility, @TESTDISKDATE@
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Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
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https://www.cgsecurity.org