DFSee version 6.14 has been released today, a few fixes and enhancements to the DFSDISK and DFSCHECK procedures plus some new scripts for the Linux version.
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://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee614.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Just the 'dfsee' Linux distribution with documentation:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx_linux.tgz
Most important functional changes since 6.13:
- Linux dfstart, dfsdisk, dfscheck, dfsquick, dfsquery scripts
- Linux Fixed clear-screen at startup for non-windowed scripts
- DFSDISK Command renamed from 'UNFDISK' for consistency
- DFSDISK Documented cmd for 'dfsdisk' procedure (dfscmds.txt)
- DFSDISK Made this an 'auto-quit' command for easy scripting
- DFSDISK Changed menu: Actions -> DFSDISK, Find partitions
- DFSCHECK Added to menu: Actions -> DFSCHECK, Check filesystems
- DFSCHECK Run DOxxxx.DFS script on one or all partitions
- DFSCHECK Made this an 'auto-quit' command for easy scripting
- DFSTEST Script enhanced with display of RAID specific stuff
- Keyboard Shift-F1/Shift-F10 now alias for F1/F10 (for Gnome)
- LVM Display values on recovery using LVM-signature sect
- PART Handle type 0xfd (RAID) just as native Linux (0x83)
- PRESTORE Fixed disk-description alignments produced on Linux
- VIRT Removed test on .PDx version older than 5.06
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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