Information about the package, testdisk, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The testdisk package is designed for, Tool to check and undelete partition, PhotoRec recovers lost files.
Package Name:
testdisk
Summary:
Tool to check and undelete partition, PhotoRec recovers lost files
Description:
Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS. PhotoRec is a signature based file recovery utility. It handles more than 440 file formats including JPG, MSOffice, OpenOffice documents.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
7.0
Release:
4.el6
Size:
449 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the testdisk package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install testdisk
This command will install testdisk on the server.
yum remove testdisk
This command will un-install testdisk on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove testdisk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove testdisk
This command will un-install testdisk on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove testdisk when using the -y flag.
yum update testdisk
This command will update testdisk to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove testdisk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update testdisk
This command will update testdisk to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove testdisk when using the -y flag.
yum info testdisk
This command will show you core information about the testdisk package.
yum deplist testdisk
This command will show you the dependencies for testdisk. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update testdisk
This command will check if there is an update waiting on testdisk. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.