What sense does it make that Photorec offers recovery from non-free disk space? These files don't have to be recovered because they are visible anyway!?
Can somebody explain that?
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Photorec recovery from non-free disk space makes sense?
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Re: Photorec recovery from non-free disk space makes sense?
There is no such option.
Please read carefully what your options are:
In case of desaster (destroyed metadata) you would like to search the whole partition. It does not matter if some clusters/sectors were formerly belonging to a file system structure as that structure is either destroyed or unusable.
source:
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRe ... ec_options
Please read carefully what your options are:
In case of desaster (destroyed metadata) you would like to search the whole partition. It does not matter if some clusters/sectors were formerly belonging to a file system structure as that structure is either destroyed or unusable.
source:
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRe ... ec_options
Re: Photorec recovery from non-free disk space makes sense?
ok, but what happens when you search the whole disk of a healthy disk with working metadata and file system? photorec should find nothing, right?
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Re: Photorec recovery from non-free disk space makes sense?
Photorec is not necessary when nothing is broken.
Re: Photorec recovery from non-free disk space makes sense?
you don't say!
but the question was, does it find (fractions) of deleted files on that (full, non-empty) part of the disk or will it show all files or find nothing?
but the question was, does it find (fractions) of deleted files on that (full, non-empty) part of the disk or will it show all files or find nothing?
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Re: Photorec recovery from non-free disk space makes sense?
Please simply try it out. I can only guess and your question is not related to the purpose of this program.