Date:  Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:30:37 -0500
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: DFSee version 6.15 released


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

DFSee version 6.15 has been released today, a few enhancements to some
displayes based on Warpstock USA feedback, and a few new menu-items have
been added.

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

Just the 'dfsee' Linux distribution with documentation:

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


Most important functional changes since 6.14:

 - BOOTINI  Added '-2' option for 2nd ARC line to be updated too
 - PT * *   Allow multi-partition and multi-disk reporting
 - PT   -r  Display PBR and LVM sectors as well as the MBR/EBR
 - PART -w  Fixed warning on multiple-ACTIVE on single disk ERROR
 - PART -w  Changed warning on ACTIVE extended to be an ERROR
 - SIM      Added -A for append to an existing (RAW) image
 - WALK     Updated PT-entry display layout, better offset values
 - WIPESECURE added -f = freespace wipe only, use on filesystems
 - MENU new Actions-> File and... -> Wipe all sectors in list
 - MENU new Actions-> Erase,  ... -> Wipe all sectors in list
 - MENU new Actions-> Erase,  ... -> SECUREWIPE freespace in FS
 - MENU new Display-> Other   ... -> Part sector(s) view (pt * -r)
 - MENU new Display-> Sectors for partition -> ...       (pt pid)
 - MENU new Mode=FDISK -> Search partitioning sectors    (bsfind)
 - Linux    Fixed crash when using '*' as a program parameter


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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 Warpstock Europe 2004, Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 26-28th, 2004
http://www.warpstock.net
 Warpstock 2005 - Where/When? Stay tuned to http://www.warpstock.org

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