Data recovery
From wikinotes
Data Recovery is painful, and professional help is prohibitively expensive. There is little that you can do in the event of a disaster, but these utilities may be able to help you out of a crisis.
HDD Recovery
| ddrescue | disk-image without damaging new disk, prevent hangs with max-retries |
Data Shredding
| wipe | program to wipe files within a filesystem (not very useful) | |
| shred | program to wipe an entire disk |
