On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:01:13AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > For that sort of thing, if the file is fragmented, you're probably more > or less out of luck. What you'd probably want to do is build a map of > the unallocated clusters on the partition, starting with the first > cluster of the file (which you can still get from its directory entry).
okay, i really know nothing about the inner workings of fat32... how
would i do both of these things?
> If you're lucky, the free blocks coming after the file's first cluster
> will be the file (or obviously not the file, e.g. those that contain
> deleted small text files or other obviously "not the droids you're
> looking for" stuff). Unfortunately, the FAT filesystem retains no
> information about the location of a file's blocks other than the first
> one.
knock on wood it won't be fragmented then (it was just a few megs) :)
thanks for the help
sean
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