"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . .
Oh, I read a version of this earlier. It was there. I didn't reply since I don't know an answer for you off the top of my head. Not even off the top of the pointiest part of my head... > 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. This is likely to be a lame answer, meaning there's probably a much better one somewhere, but had I enough RAM, I'd configure a huge RAMdisk, and `dd if=/dev/hd? of=<ramdisk>`, then start searching. Alternatives to explore might be a program, pretty low level, to read in raw sectors, maybe write it to a file, system("perl -e ...") to search, etc, reiteratively. When's your deadline with this paper, anyway? > To complicate matters, the machine has no netwerok connectivity; > it's a laptop, and the pcmcia hardware seems to have gone south . . . Ouch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.