Re: scanning physical disk to retrieve file
if its a fat filesystem I got the tools you need...email me back quick!
gotta head to work
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: scanning physical disk to retrieve file
>
> Agh. this was low priority, and just went really high . . .
>
> I almost managed an "rm -r *~" to get rid of the backup files from
> emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is
> dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself.
>
> As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a half-written
> journal article on the economics of free software.
>
> I've already followed the pages on file recovery, and haven't managed
> to find that file (though I found a couple of interesting ones I'd
> forgotten about :)
>
> It's a 340mb disk, with 340 devoted to drdos (hey, I can't go to
> conventions without master of orion, can I? :), and a 40 meg swap.
> There's 20 megs of ram, so I can use that for workspace instead.
>
> How do I read the raw device (ideally in 40m chunks of the unused
> space?) so that I can search my way through it for words & phrases?
>
> And of course, I need to hit the road tomorrow at 2:30 (that which
> suddenly made this urgent), and need to use the laptop while I'm gone.
> I"ll have to sacrifice this paper and start from scratch if I can't
> work this out by then . . .
>
> hawk
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