Golden Richard released version 1.60 of his file carver Scalpel. This version for the first time supports the concept of in-place carving.
A single invocation of "make" is all what is needed to compile Scalpel. The archive also contains a precompiled binary for the Microsoft Windows platform.
There's only a single slight change to the default configuration file (scalpel.conf): the footer signature for GIF98a graphic files has been modified.
The -p option allows to preview a disk image. In preview mode Scalpel reports the position of hits, but doesn't create the files. This can be used to identify interesting regions within an image at a high speed.
The -m <blocksize> option creates a map of the caved image. Therefore the image is virtually split into blocks of the given size. The map file then contains the hit count per block. At a later time Scalpel can use this map when directed by the -u option. Please note that both options are experimental.
