> 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! -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. -- Become part of the world's biggest computer cluster - join http://www.distributed.net/
