Thanks a lot for the illustration. At least some new things have been highlighted. I really appriciate the way you described the problem. Thanks a lot! --- Nick Bishop <nick4soup@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --- Deepak Shrestha <d8888pak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > PS. By the way your kind of comments doesn't really > > help the people. Instead of these comments if you > > have > > adviced on how to use the "commander" thingy, that > > could have helped a lot. > > I agree the comments tumbling forth weren't helpful. > > I made a similar mistake on my linux system, on a > FAT16 vfat partition, so I umounted it and dd ... | > gzip > elsewhere.gz > > I tried using Linux Disk Editor (lde at sourceforge) > but it was very buggy. I've now downloaded a slew of > detailed info about FAT/vfat and I'm now undeleting by > hand. > > Is there a binary editor I can use on the disk, coz at > present, I am using ... > 'od' to examine the disk > 'perl' or a calculator to do mathematics (hex to > decimal, etc) > 'echo ...| tr 'asc' 'binary' | dd ... seek=target, > to write the disk. > > Example, to write the character 'L' to byte number > 0x45678 on the disk /dev/hda6, do this > # perl -e 'print 0x45678 . "\n"' > 284280 > # echo 'L' | dd of=/dev/hda6 bs=1 count=1 \ > seek=284280 > > To write a binary 0x05 to the same spot ... > # echo 'a' | tr 'a' '\005' | \ > dd of=/dev/hda6 bs=1 count=1 seek=284280 > > As you might see, a disk editor that actually works is > probably easier. > > > Nick Bishop, email replies ignored. > ----- > Disclaimer, n: > Advice to the reader that they should put their lawyer away. > -oOo- > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Try Yahoo! Photomail Beta: Send up to 300 photos in one email! > http://au.photomail.mail.yahoo.com > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > _ | \ _ _ ._ _.| |_/(/_(/_|_)(_||< | Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
