TESTDISK

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 19, 2003
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NAME

testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions

SYNOPSIS

testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump]

testdisk /list [/log]

DESCRIPTION

   TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
   It works with :
   - FAT12, FAT16 <32M, FAT16 >32M, FAT32
   - NTFS
   - LINUX ext2fs/ext3fs, LINUX swap
   - OS/2 MultiBoot (also used by Partition Magic)
   - BFS (BeOS)
   - UFS (BSD)
   - ReiserFS (1 & 2)

OPTIONS

/log: create a testdisk.log file
/debug: add debug information
/dump: dump raw sectors
/list: display current partitions