Package: testdisk Version: 6.5-1 Severity: wishlist 'photorec' isn't reading devices the Unix way, where all I/O is a file. Perhaps low level disk access is often preferable for file recovery, (with damaged media a file based interface would thrash), but no high level interface whatsoever can be a hindrance.
Case history: My Olympus camera stores pictures on a Smartmedia card. At present my Smartmedia reader is the front panel of a USB scanner that only works in Windows. Thus to recover a file off the Smartmedia card, I used a Windows version of 'dd' to create a disk image of said card. Rebooted in Linux and ran 'photorec', but 'photorec' doesn't work on files, just devices. To get around that I mounted the disk image as a '/dev/loop0', but 'photorec' couldn't see that either even as 'root'. (Eventually I gave up and downloaded a Windows version of 'photorec', which read the physical Smartmedia card from the front port of the scanner.) It'd be nice if 'photorec' could work on raw disk image files; not exclusively, but as a user option. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages testdisk depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 ext2 filesystem libraries ii libc6 2.5-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libjpeg6 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurs 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libntfs9 1.13.1-6+b2 library that provides common NTFS testdisk recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
