File recovery

[Anton Rolls]

Donn wrote:
>> Is there any data recovery software in the repositories that might help
>> with extracting this document?
> mount it (using loop)... Something like:
> 
> mount -o loop, unhide -t whatever -r filename /mnt/point
> 
> Where:
> whatever is the file system type (ext3 or iso9660 etc.)
> /mnt/point is some empty directory you know about
> filename is the dd image.
> 
> man mount baby :)
> 
> \d

I would also make sure the image is mounted readonly ('ro')
to be sure it's not modified by being mounted.
(Maybe one of the options recommended above implies readonly
mode, but check the mount man page to be sure.)

Anton.