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diff --git a/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml b/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..74b8ea10f77a --- /dev/null +++ b/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> +<!-- maintainer-needed --> +<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> |