DFSee version 6.15 has been released today, a few enhancements to some displayes based on Warpstock USA feedback, and a few new menu-items have been added.
DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. More details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm
Direct download links:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx.zip
Just the 'dfsee' Linux distribution with documentation:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx_linux.tgz
Most important functional changes since 6.14:
- BOOTINI Added '-2' option for 2nd ARC line to be updated too
- PT * * Allow multi-partition and multi-disk reporting
- PT -r Display PBR and LVM sectors as well as the MBR/EBR
- PART -w Fixed warning on multiple-ACTIVE on single disk ERROR
- PART -w Changed warning on ACTIVE extended to be an ERROR
- SIM Added -A for append to an existing (RAW) image
- WALK Updated PT-entry display layout, better offset values
- WIPESECURE added -f = freespace wipe only, use on filesystems
- MENU new Actions-> File and... -> Wipe all sectors in list
- MENU new Actions-> Erase, ... -> Wipe all sectors in list
- MENU new Actions-> Erase, ... -> SECUREWIPE freespace in FS
- MENU new Display-> Other ... -> Part sector(s) view (pt * -r)
- MENU new Display-> Sectors for partition -> ... (pt pid)
- MENU new Mode=FDISK -> Search partitioning sectors (bsfind)
- Linux Fixed crash when using '*' as a program parameter
The Linux version has been tested on several IDE and a few SCSI systems and on Red-hat-5, Slackware-7, Suse-9.0 and Mandrake-10 distributions.
Note:
There is a design change in the Linux 2.6 kernel for disk-translation that affects many disk-tools including DFSee. The effect is that the geometry used will be DIFFERENT from what the BIOS uses.
Using disk-tools (including Suse 9.1 and Fedore core-2 install!) that are not aware of these changes may lead to problems on multi-boot systems.
(Windows not booting, OS/2 or eCS loosing LVM info)
Regards, JvW
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