Oswald opined,
> well ... i don't remember their names. i found some of them by searching
> freshmeat.net and doing a generic web search for "linux disk editor"
*DOH!*
Now I feel foolish :)
> or
> something like that. i did not bookmark them, as they all were not very
> satisfactory ... :-(
> > 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 assume
> > 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
chris chryed,
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 02:14:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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 want to find the first block of the tar. I
> 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 tha
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 01:00:38AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > I guess that's the big question: what *is* the tar magic that I'm
> >
> according to /usr/share/misc/magic gnu tar archives contain the magic
> "ustar". however, i found, that it's not at the beginning of the archive.
> the
> I guess that's the big question: what *is* the tar magic that I'm
>
according to /usr/share/misc/magic gnu tar archives contain the magic
"ustar". however, i found, that it's not at the beginning of the archive.
the archive starts with the name of the first archived file/directory
padded with
> recover with dd. the better question is, how to find them. if you've
> overwritten only the fat, than the problem is not that big: the fat is
> used only to find the second and following clusters of a file; the first
> cluster is stored in the directory, from which the file is referred to.
> so
> It was a brand new partition, and only two files should ever have been
> written there (tars of /home and /etc), so I presume that they were
> written continuously.
>
probably ...
> Any suggestions on how to recover these?
>
recover with dd. the better question is, how to find them. if you'
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