TODO over of the next year ;-) - English documentation we working on it, but we need help !!!!!!! the wikisite from Berlios are outsourced to http://ext4magic.sourceforge.net/ext4magic_en.html Current stat 09.2014: does not look nice, but is informative - the development in the file-project has negative implications for the quality of the magic function file-5.04 ---> file-5.19 tests reached a negative recovery result of 5% and more ext4magic need a own privat magic database in the future the interface is integrated by ext4magic-0.3.2 for first experiments http://ext4magic.sourceforge.net/magic-pattern-interface.html Current stat 09.2014: open - the new Magic-function for ext3 old 0.2.x function is very slow and inaccurate and is not compatible with the Magic-functions of the ext4 in 0.3.x a support for both file systems is complex and expensive Current stat 09.2014: postpone - better support for source code and other text files "file" can not detect the text file type if a long comment at begin of the file therefore the Magic-function recovers not all shell example : for a possibility solution approach # file -i ext4magic.c ext4magic.c: text/plain; charset=us-ascii # sed '1,/^$/d' ext4magic.c | file -i - /dev/stdin: text/x-c; charset=us-ascii Current stat 09.2014: new libmagic version eliminated the problem. Changes within ext4magic therefore, not required - ext4 : with the Magic-function it should be possible to recover also some file types if the deleted file has existed with 2 to 4 extents the conditions and preparations are already included the possible individual extents are already collected in the database a function is needed to find out and check the correct order Current stat 09.2014: open Currently known issues - on big-endian the crtime and deleted directory entry not correct if use the real libfunction for read the inode. - The modified version to read the journal inode works. BUG:#017304 ; #017304 - libmagic file-5.05 crushed some video/audio formats to postscript trash - libmagic file-5.17 many segfaults, not usable for the magic-function of ext4magic