Date:  Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:34:38 -0300
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: DFSee version 6.14 released


From: "Jan van Wijk" <jvwDESPAM at dfsee.com> 

DFSee version 6.14 has been released today, a few fixes and
enhancements to the DFSDISK and DFSCHECK procedures plus
some new scripts for the Linux version.

DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With
FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for
HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. More details at:

  http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm

Direct download links:

  http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx.zip
  http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee614.zip
  http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee

Just the 'dfsee' Linux distribution with documentation:

  http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee6xx_linux.tgz


Most important functional changes since 6.13:

 - Linux    dfstart, dfsdisk, dfscheck, dfsquick, dfsquery scripts
 - Linux    Fixed clear-screen at startup for non-windowed scripts
 - DFSDISK  Command renamed from 'UNFDISK' for consistency
 - DFSDISK  Documented cmd for 'dfsdisk' procedure (dfscmds.txt)
 - DFSDISK  Made this an 'auto-quit' command for easy scripting
 - DFSDISK  Changed  menu: Actions -> DFSDISK,  Find partitions
 - DFSCHECK Added to menu: Actions -> DFSCHECK, Check filesystems
 - DFSCHECK Run DOxxxx.DFS script on one or all partitions
 - DFSCHECK Made this an 'auto-quit' command for easy scripting
 - DFSTEST  Script enhanced with display of RAID specific stuff
 - Keyboard Shift-F1/Shift-F10 now alias for F1/F10 (for Gnome)
 - LVM      Display values on recovery using LVM-signature sect
 - PART     Handle type 0xfd (RAID) just as native Linux (0x83)
 - PRESTORE Fixed disk-description alignments produced on Linux
 - VIRT     Removed test on .PDx version older than 5.06


The Linux version has been tested on several IDE and a few SCSI systems
and on Red-hat-5, Slackware-7, Suse-9.0 and Mandrake-10 distributions.


Note:
There is a design change in the Linux 2.6 kernel for disk-translation that
affects many disk-tools including DFSee. The effect is that the geometry
used will be DIFFERENT from what the BIOS uses.
Using disk-tools (including Suse 9.1 and Fedore core-2 install!) that are
not aware of these changes may lead to problems on multi-boot systems.
(Windows not booting, OS/2 or eCS loosing LVM info)


Regards, JvW

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DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk;  Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM at dfsee.com



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