Which is why I thought there might be some sort of default compression or encryption going on as you also suggest. :-) However, they cannot actually be uncompressed using gunzip or bunzip2 because they are either part of a larger set of compressed files (which is what gunzip says) or they're not really compressed files. bz2 files could also be intermediate files used by some of the software used to recover the drive. Full drive compression could potentially leave you with very few, if any directories or folders. If this is the case then there's likely some add on program to do the opposite. If there's an option to compress the drive, which might have led your friend to believe she was just making room for other files, when in fact it was going through the drive and sequentially compressing everything it sees. I think you would need to check with the manuals/Western Digital on the software they have included. You might want to look into seeing if the WD has some compression routines that would cause that to happen. I know a lot of the external drives come with their own suites of software. It's fairly standard stuff in the Unix/Linux/BSD world, and it's actually standard fare in the Mac world too, it's just all hidden from you.
bz2 extension are compress/decompressed with bzip2/bunzip2. If you're familiar with zip in Windows, it's the same sort of thing.gz files are done with gzip (to compress) and gunzip (to decompress). bz2 extension are compressed files and/or directories. I just thought I'd throw it out there in the event the drive itself was showing signs of failure.įiles with the. Scannerz is indeed test software for testing drives and troubleshooting problems related to the drive subsystem.
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