Re: a hexeditor please

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Friday 09 February 2018 11:11:12 Stefan Pietsch wrote:

> On 09.02.2018 16:36, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Trying to scan thru an 8Gb file dd has made of an sd card, I find
> > khexedits lack of a scroll bar to be a huge hindrance.
> >
> > Do we have one of those critters that will let me scan thru a file
> > that big looking for data besides 00 00, and will do it yet this
> > year?
> >
> > Story so far:
> >
> > 64 gb card from a working rock64. Edited 60-persistent-storage.rule
> > to exclude /dev/sdd so gparted could shrink the last partition down
> > to a usable size, but still above the occupied area.
> >
> > Used dd to make a file of the first 8Gb, wrote that 8Gb to another
> > identical 64Gb card. gparted says its a blank card. So I want to
> > inspect the file, but khexedit, with no scroll bar, makes that down
> > arrow scan a multiyear project.
> >
> > Do we have a better hex editor?
>
> If you like the command line try radare2:
>
> https://screenshots.debian.net/package/radare2
> https://radare.gitbooks.io/radare2book/content/search_bytes/intro.html
>
Looks interesting, will it run on 32 bit wheezy?
>
> Regards,
> Stefan

Thanks.

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