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Thank you for a speedy response. I had not reviewed the documentation for testdisk once I realized it could not handle the job itself. Looking there it appears that the fidentify utility is exactly what I will need once I have the content recovered.

Once again thank you for your timely assistance ...

I thought I ought to follow-up where I am today with this.

I assisted the developer with converting his Aix tool to work in linux. The tool does indeed locate the almost complete file names and metadata as well as the contents. At its current state there are issues with older deleted files and ...

Reading your page on Photorec it appears that there are cases where it can recover the directory structure.
Where did you find this statement exactly?

I guess I was reading too much into "for example, in an ext3/ext4 file system, the names of deleted files are still present, but the location ...

OK, I will keep that in mind. I may have another tool for this from a JFS specialty group. At present it is AIX specific, but they believe it can be released for linux as well.

Reading your page on Photorec it appears that there are cases where it can recover the directory structure. Is JFS one of ...

A few days ago I installed linux mint 20.1 to my laptop, as my current 18.3 release is going EOL this month. For a reason I have yet to determine the installer did a mkfs on my main data partition, which is formatted in JFS. I have no backup of this partition and as such will need to recover it in ...