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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers UNIX for newbie Post 302898403 by Azrael on Tuesday 22nd of April 2014 02:25:02 AM
Old 04-22-2014
If you just want to 'try' a Unix type system a live Linux cd/dvd would be the way to go. However, if you want to learn FreeBSD and aren't sure about it you would probably be best to try it out by installing it in a virtual machine inside Windows. While Linux and Unix are similar, they are not the same thing. If you like it then move on to creating a 2nd partition on your computer and have a dual boot of both Windows and Unix.

EDIT: I missed your last post where you said you had multiple machines to use now. Ignore my advice and have fun with that.
 

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testdisk

TESTDISK(8)						       Administration Tools						       TESTDISK(8)

NAME

       testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions

SYNOPSIS

       testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]

       testdisk /version

       testdisk /list [/log]

DESCRIPTION

	  TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
	  It works with :
	  - BeFS (BeOS)
	  - BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
	  - CramFS, Compressed File System
	  - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
	  - HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
	  - JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
	  - Linux ext2/ext3/ext4
	  - Linux Raid
	    RAID 1: mirroring
	    RAID 4: striped array with parity device
	    RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
	    RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
	  - Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
	  - LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
	  - Mac partition map
	  - Novell Storage Services NSS
	  - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
	  - ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
	  - Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
	  - Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
	  - XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

	  It can undelete files from
	  - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
	  - Linux ext2
	  - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)

OPTIONS

       /log   create a testdisk.log file

       /debug add debug information

       /dump  dump raw sectors

       /list  display current partitions

SEE ALSO

       fdisk(8), photorec(8).

AUTHOR

       TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
       Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
       http://www.cgsecurity.org

2011								     November							       TESTDISK(8)
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