Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:47:31 -0400 From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: DFSee 13.4 released, full EXT2/3/4 support ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: jvwDESPAM at DESPAMdfsee dot com DFSee version 13.4 has been released. It is a MINOR release, but with some significant new functionality: 1) The support for the EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 filesystems has been expanded to include ALL the DFSee features like: - File recovery, copy files from an inaccessible filesystem to a location on another drive, even from DOS, Windows, OS/2 or OS-X - Generate a complete 'Sector Lookup Table' for CHECKing the FS - Display of, and navigation through the whole directory structure - Display EXTn features like blockgroup information and superblock backup locations. 2) Automatic 'Run as Administrator' on Windows-7, 8 or 10, when using the DFSee icons added to the Windows start-menu, and proper sizing of the tex-mode window. Better DFSDISK and DFSCHECK scripts. 3) Automatic 'SUDO' in the supplied shell-scripts for Linux and Mac OS-X, and a better 'setup' script creating symbolic links in /usr/local/bin so you can now start the scripts from ANYWHERE, and they will still find all required DFSee support files. Installation is as easy as: - Download the DFSee distribution (like 'dfsee13x.zip) - Extract to a directory of your choice (like a home directory) - cd to the DFSee directory with the Linux or Mac executables - 'chmod 744 setup' - './setup' And from then on, you can start DFSee from ANY (data, logging) directory using any of the script names: dfs, dfsdisk, dfscheck, dfsedit and so on DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem and disk analysis, some file recovery and UNDELETE and smart imaging or cloning of partitions or complete disks. More details at: http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/ Direct download links from the DFSee website: http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee134.zip http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee134.msi http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee134_warpin.exe http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee134_dsk.zip http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee13x_linux.tgz http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee13x_iso.zip http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee13x_stick_iso.zip Or from the HOBBES website: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee134.zip or (after processing): http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=dfsee&pushbutton=Search Functional changes since 13.3 - ABOUT OS-version: Added specific Windows-8, 8.1 and 10 kernels - ALLOC: Recognize GPT-header+tables as BOOT areas in full-disk ALLOC - CLONE/IMAGE: Enabled SMART for EXT2/3/4, except when META_BG used - DFSDISK/DFSCHECK suppress final message ONLY with option -screen- - DFSUSB32: Issue warning when trying to create a stick on (Free)DOS - DFSUSB32: Updated descriptions to use simple 'DFSEEDOS.ISO' download - EXTCMD: Added extra hint that it may be an incorrecly typed command - EXTn: ABG: Display allocation with a single blockgroup per line - EXTn: ALLOC/smart: Handle BLOCK_UNINIT for normal/backup groups - EXTn: ALLOC: Add BlockGroup# to each line, when exactly 1 BG/line - EXTn: BG: Added GDT/BM/Itable locations + sizes to verbose display - EXTn: BG: Added backup-super, and UNINIT/ZEROED flag indicators - EXTn: BG: Add display of the flags, like UNINIT block/inode bitmap - EXTn: BSL: List backup superblock (+ metadata) groups and sectors - EXTn: DFSEXT.dfs script updated for a complete CHECK analysis run - EXTn: DIR: Better handling of empty entries (skip, no abort) SLT too - EXTn: DIR: Display directory data, including related inode values - EXTn: DIR: FileType string (dir/file) and INDEX root/node details - EXTn: FILEFIND, implemented a QUICK search for file/directory Inodes - EXTn: FINDPATH or '\path' command implemented, search Inode by path - EXTn: INO: Auto show same Inode on 't', and show index in Statusline - EXTn: INO: Calculate sector+index for specified Inode-number; display - EXTn: INO: Detect and show UNKNOWN feature flags (INCOMPATIBLE etc) - EXTn: INO: Display data allocation, BLOCK-INDIRECT or EXTENT-TREE - EXTn: INO: Display linkname for small (inlined) symlink Inodes - EXTn: INO: Display of Inode contents complete, except alloc S_SPACE - EXTn: INO: Show 1st data on from BlockIndirect or ExtentTree - EXTn: Init: determine DIRTY-status from Groups/Bitmap difference too - EXTn: LIST: Show proper File information, path and allocation info - EXTn: SLT/INO: Special inode-7 (RESIZE) handling, for display too - EXTn: SLT: Add allocation for DIR and FILE Inodes, recursively - EXTn: SLT: Added meta-allocation to SLT and to Inode verbose display - EXTn: SLT: Include all SB, GDT, GDT-reserve, Block- and Inode-bitmaps - EXTn: SUPER: Auto show ROOT Inode on from superblock display - FILEDLG: Create correct directory with [Make Dir] for absolute paths - FILEFIND, JFS, HPFS, NTFS: added 'search files only' option '-f' - LINUX: New 'dfs' sudo-start script, setup symlinks to /usr/local/bin - MENU: EDIT: Update some descriptions for 'Force operation Mode=xxx' - MENU: EXTn: Added File recovery submenu, Filefind, Recover, Hex-edit - MENU: EXTn: Added Inode selection by ino# or one of the special ones - MENU: EXTn: Alloc map, by Blockgroup; Display group aligned ALLOC map - MENU: EXTn: Analyse EXT Filesystem (check) and SLT submenu added - MENU: EXTn: List BACKUP Superblocks; List all BACKUP groups (super) - MENU: EXTn: Mode=EXT2_3 name changed to EXTn, to account for EXT4 - MENU: EXTn: Show BlockGroup Summary; Show flags and alloc for group - MENU: Error message when trying to add a GPT partition to Bootmanager - PART -v: Added backup-super-BG indicator 'S' for EXTn backup groups - WINDOWS/DOS/OS2: 'dfs' BAT/CMD as alias for 'dfsee', like Linux/Mac - WINDOWS: Include 'DFSRUNAS.EXE' for automatic 'Run as Administrator' - WINDOWS: Resize window on startup now to 80% of screen, lines+cols - WINDOWS: Updated the batch-scripts to work with DFSRUNAS (XP..WIN10) Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee dot com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - mailto://info at dfsee dot com -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. 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