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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+<herd>forensics</herd>
+<maintainer>
+ <email>forensics@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Forensics Herd</name>
+</maintainer>
+<longdescription>
+Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks
+at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or
+partition. As long as the file data is there, it will find it.
+
+
+It works on any file system, but on very fragmented file systems it can only recover the first chunk of each file. Practical
+experience (this program was not written for fun) shows, however, that chunks of 30-50MB are not uncommon.
+</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>