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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:57:07 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: would this be a useful utility?
Message-ID:  <20040226195707.GR7466@sirius.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402261136060.6679-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402261136060.6679-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:51:56AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> We have a toolkit that includes such things as:
>=20
>  showing which cylinder groups a file was allocated into
> or
>  dumping all the blocks a file is on...
>=20
> I've often wanted this. I wonder if it is worth importing it
> or making it a port?

This would be useful to obtain the disk blocks (cylinders?) a
file was allocated into so that it could be specifically
overwritten after being deleted from the filesystem tree.

I don't think C++ is a problem.  We ship g++ in FreeBSD.

Regards,
--=20
wca

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