extcarve - ext2,ext3,ext4 a file carving tool

[lakshmi]

I have updated my old project named "ext3carve" and renamed it as
"extcarve" .

In summary,the tool will do the following -
It will scan the linux machine ,for unused/deleted blocks and search
for magic signatures. If it finds valid signature (both header and
footer) It saves the file at given external drive.

Now it can recover- non-fragmented deleted files (like
png,jpg,gif,html,c/cpp/php,pdf files).

One main advantage is that it opens the affected partitions on read-
only mode,thus no changes made to affected disk.Disk remains the same
- regardless of whether extcarve recovers them or not.

Simply usage could be -
1. Copy extcarve binary to Pen drive.
2. Plug-in the pen-drive to affected system.(the system from where you
want to recover files)
3.Attach an external harddrive to affected system so that recovered
files will be stored on external hdd.
3. Run the extcarve from within pendrive - Provide affected drive as
input and external drive as output directory.

Checkout recovered files at external hdd.
Download url - Index of /giis

Any feedbacks are welcome.