Magic Rescue
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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.

Find the latest version at http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/

Building
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There are no build requirements other than a C library and an X/OPEN system
interface.  To use the dupemap(1) utility, you must have the NDBM
compatibility header, which either comes with your system or the development
libraries of GDBM or Berkeley DB.

./configure && make && make install

The "make install" step is optional.

Using
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man magicrescue