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| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>forensics@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Forensics Project</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription> |
| Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks |
| at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or |
| partition. As long as the file data is there, it will find it. |
| |
| It works on any file system, but on very fragmented file systems it can only recover the first chunk of each file. Practical |
| experience (this program was not written for fun) shows, however, that chunks of 30-50MB are not uncommon. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |