[TriLUG] recovering files from lost+found

[Peter Neilson]

Charles Mangin wrote:
> after recovering from a particularly bad drive problem (since fixed, i 
> think) i was left with a filesystem with a rather large "lost+found" 
> directory.
> 
> i've discovered that i can use "foremost" to sort those files into 
> filetype by examining their header information. this is great for those 
> filetypes foremost knows about. unfortunately, part of what's in there 
> are a lot of music files in m4a and itunes' m4p format.
> 
> are there any alternatives to foremost that can handle these filetypes, 
> or can anyone point me to a "foremost.conf" example that i can use to 
> try and teach foremost how to recover these files?

Linux "file" command and its associated /usr/share/file/magic* and 
/etc/magic files, perhaps?