On Thursday 27 September 2007 20:44, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/09/27 20:22 (GMT-0700) Randall R Schulz apparently typed: > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> Looking at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3 > >> and the DD man page I figured to see a hex dump of the dmraid data > >> I should be able to do: > >> > >> dd if=/dev/hda of=somefile.bin seek=156301440 count=1 bs=512 > > > > Dd is just a fancy copy program. It does not format the data it > > transfers. > > The desired sectors are beyond the last full cylinder on disk. Not > being within any filesystem, ordinary file viewers wouldn't be able > to find them even if part of a file.
That is nonsensical. If the data in question is "part of a file" then by definition it's within a file system. > As dmraid data, I didn't expect > them to be within any file anyway. Formatting is a non-issue. You asked for a "hex dump." That's data formatting. Nonetheless, when using a raw device, such as /dev/hda, you are not subject to the boundaries of a file system or of the partioning of the device, only of its total capacity. If you use a partition, e.g., /dev/hda0, then you're only going to be able to see the contents within that partition, as it's defined in the drive's partition table. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
