From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 27 18:45:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20948 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20919 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-137.camalott.com [208.229.74.137]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21392; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:46:08 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA26752; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:40:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:40:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808280140.UAA26752@detlev.UUCP> To: Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980827095701.B5471@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> (message from Jos Backus on Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:57:01 +0200) Subject: Re: recovering disk From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808262046.WAA26730@semyam.dinoco.de> <199808262334.SAA13309@detlev.UUCP> <19980827095701.B5471@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> You know what I'd like? A general disk editor, that can take its >> input by the block or by the file, with a hex editor as well as some >> special-purpose viewers. Something like Norton's Disk Editor. Said >> tool has been amazingly useful to me on many an occasion. > There's always http://www.pobox.com/~djb/software/ufsread-0.50.shar.gz, > although it is probably too fs-centric for this purpose... Not familiar with it; I'll take a look. I've been using fsdb, which is good for its job, but I want something with a little bit different. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message