foremost: A console program to recover files based on data carving

Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
This process is commonly referred to as data carving.
Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive.
The headers and footers can be specified by a configuration file or you can use command line switches to specify built-in file types.
These built-in types look at the data structures of a given file format allowing for a more reliable and faster recovery.

Originally developed by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations and The Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research, foremost has been opened to the general public.

Name:	foremost
Release:	1.5.7-4mamba
Group:	Applications/File
Maintainer:	silvan
License:	Public Domain
Size:	67.76 kB
Upstream URL:	https://foremost.sourceforge.net/
Build time:	2026-10-29 13:50:07

Source files

foremost-1.5.6-fix_build.patch
foremost-1.5.7-fno-common.patch
foremost-1.5.7.tar.gz
foremost.spec

Binary packages and requirements

	x86_64	i586
Built RPMS	foremost foremost-debug	foremost foremost-debug
Build requirements	glibc-devel [1]	glibc-devel [1]

History of changes

Date	Packager	Release	Description
2026-10-29	autodist	1.5.7-4mamba	- automatic rebuild by autodist
2025-03-04	autodist	1.5.7-3mamba	- automatic rebuild by autodist
2025-03-03	silvan	1.5.7-2mamba	- rebuilt
2012-06-25	stefano	1.5.7-1mamba	- update to 1.5.7
2010-01-11	silvan	1.5.6-1mamba	- update to 1.5.6
2007-08-29	stefano	1.5-1mamba	- package created by autospec

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