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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:53:30PM +1100, eodyna wrote:
> hello again,
> 
> I dont know if this is possible, but does anyone know
> if you can write to a specific address in Freebsd?
> 
> Say, i want to write to block 7946848-7946879. Can i
> do that, or is that something different?
> 
> Thanks in advance .

You should be able to do that using dd(1).


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