Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)
> yikes, I can do without the gory details :) does this mean that once I
> find a block of a tar, I can start extracting, even if it wasn't the
> middle?
>
you mean "even if it wasn't the START?", right?
the answer is yes. just verified this.
> And now that I think of it, someone mentioned that there are bad disk
> editors available for linux.
i said, they suck, not that they are bad. this means, that they are not
that simple to use as diskedit for dos and lack the one or other
interesting feature - at least the last time i looked out half a year ago.
;-)
> I just realized that I can't use the same
> method I sed on an ext2 on a fat (unless it grew inodes while I wasn't
> looking :)
??
> Or should I just start using "dd if=/dev/hda7 skip=1| tar -tvf -" and
> incrementing the skip until I hit something (I think these two files
> would be the only ones ever to be created on that partition).
not the fastest method, but it should work so far ...
good luck!
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