I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces (so I can manipulate them in the 40M partition normally assigned for swap).
I want to get a literal straight read of the disk. Can anyone point out how to do this. To complicate matters, the machine has no netwerok connectivity; it's a laptop, and the pcmcia hardware seems to have gone south . . . hawk