ewfrecover1

Usage

Overview

ewfrecover is a utility to recover corrupt EWF files.

ewfrecover is part of the libewf package. libewf is a library to access the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF).

ewf_files the first or the entire set of EWF segment files

The options are as follows:

-A codepage

the codepage of header section, options: ascii (default), windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252, windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

-h

shows this help

-l log_filename

logs recover errors and the digest (hash) to the log filename

-p process_buffer_size

the process buffer size (default is the chunk size)

-t target

the target file to recover to (default is recover)

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

-x

use the chunk data instead of the buffered read and write functions.

Environment

None

Files

None

Examples

ewfrecover will ask the information it needs.

ewfrecover corrupt.E01 
ewfrecover 20120805
Export started at: Mon Aug  6 07:09:34 2012
This could take a while.
...

ewfrecover notcorrupt.E01 
ewfrecover 20120805
EWF file(s) are not corrupted.

Diagnostics

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.