Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:26:19PM -0500, Darxus wrote:
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> Well, I remembered seeing something somewhere that let me find the inode
> number of a file, and found it in ls's man page. Any chance I can use an
> inode number to tell dd where to find it ?
You can use debugfs to get the inode and blocks for ext2fs partitions. But
as the file will not be continuos, tracking the blocks will be a pain in the
ass. There is the undelete mini howto which describes the procedure.
But then, dd can't seek, so you'd have to write a program to skip the amount
of blocks until you reach the block you want (or you'll have to write a
small program to seek to the position). Still, you could only get single
blocks.
How about splitting the file under windows ???
Marcus
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