> > 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. yes. Thanks. > > 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. > ;-) For one-use once, i'll put up with almost anything. I assumee I only need to browse a couple of k, anyway. But what are they called? grepping /var/lib/dpkg/available for disk.*edit doesn't yield anything. > > 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 :) > ?? there's a how-to that explains brute-force inode searches on ext2 partitions. I recovered some important files from another machine this way a few weeks ago. thanks rick --
