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| author |   Daniel Black <dragonheart@gentoo.org> | 2005-01-26 03:00:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Black <dragonheart@gentoo.org> | 2005-01-26 03:00:07 +0000 |
| commit | 7dfd3130d939631a13fa41b2aea4968abd8a754c (patch) | |
| tree | 7f7128d09cccdcf816abab979d6265eed727f0e4 /app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml | |
| parent | Unstable ppc-macos (diff) | |
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Initial import.
(Portage version: 2.0.51-r15)
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diff --git a/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml b/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..cb86cd748403 --- /dev/null +++ b/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> +<herd>forensics</herd> +<maintainer> + <email>forensics@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Forensics Herd</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> |