Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:51:29 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Victor <vdemart@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recover Fat32 files from a usb hd overwritten with a Freebsd image Message-ID: <20180916175129.317930e4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49506F64-CF77-413E-8CDC-1BC58E824E2B@gmail.com> References: <778CC5A8-0C53-4FF3-80E4-5F4C73BF3BD3@gmail.com> <20180915211030.35fdf96a.freebsd@edvax.de> <49506F64-CF77-413E-8CDC-1BC58E824E2B@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 17:37:27 +0200, Victor wrote: > > Il giorno 15/set/2018, alle ore 21:10, Polytropon ha scritto: > > ........... > > By the way, are you sure it's FAT? Who uses FAT today? In > > "Windows" land, external disks tend to be formatted with > > NTFS, so in addition to the following information, you > > might consider checking if tools from the "ntfsprogs" > > package (here: ntfscat, ntfsinfo, ntfsclone, ntfsfix, > > or ntfsundelete) could be usable. > > > > > > Thank you very much indeed for your detailed instruction. > I'll have a go at magicrescue. Yes, that seems to be the best bet so far. When you have the result files, check them with an image viewer. Also keep in mind that magicrescue _can_ (and will) recover files that have been deleted intendedly, so prepare for duplicate files. (The script I wrote would deal with those special cases, too.) > By the way the reason why I think I initially had formatted > the usb device as Fat32 is that I used Disk Utility of Mac OS X > where the format is labelled as "MSDOS(FAT)" (the other windows > format is "exFAT"). Maybe I could be wrong .... No, that is fully correct. This setting will create a FAT-32 filesystem, which "Windows" can typically use (with the specific limitations of FAT and "Windows", of course). "ExFAT" is a proprietary extension of FAT aimed primarily at SSDs, USB sticks, and memory cards. You can forget about the NTFS part. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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