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Subject: Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor?
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> A tar file comes in blocks of 512 bytes. First is the filename and
> then comes other things including the word "ustar". After this header
> comes the file and then comes many more header/file combinations. So
> you should see "ustar" as many times as there are files in your tar
> file.
> If you want all the gory details, download the tar source package and
> read tar.h.
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?
And now that I think of it, someone mentioned that there are bad disk
editors available for linux. 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).
thanks
hawk
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