On 01/30/2014 01:12 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
A file carver, such as foremost, testdisk, photrec works by scanning all sectors looking for recognizable file headers.
Once they find that, they do a linear scan of the drive in an effort to find the end of the file. In many cases, they just guess.
What about a disk with a LVM partition? Suppose the partition table gets destroyed ... Isn't the information about the LVM 'portable' and well contained? Can't it say "There's the file system ..." -- "The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas." -- Abe Tannenbaum. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org