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diff --git a/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml b/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml index cb86cd748403..551acf5d4f41 100644 --- a/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml +++ b/app-forensics/magicrescue/metadata.xml @@ -2,17 +2,12 @@ <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <herd>forensics</herd> -<maintainer> - <email>forensics@gentoo.org</email> - <name>Forensics Herd</name> -</maintainer> <longdescription> -Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks -at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or +Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks +at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or partition. As long as the file data is there, it will find it. - -It works on any file system, but on very fragmented file systems it can only recover the first chunk of each file. Practical +It works on any file system, but on very fragmented file systems it can only recover the first chunk of each file. Practical experience (this program was not written for fun) shows, however, that chunks of 30-50MB are not uncommon. </longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |