On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 22:54 -0700, David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote: > fergus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >Is there a way (dunno, maybe using dd and grep?) that an entire drive, > >and not just the files on it, can be scanned for a character string? > >Fergus > > > There is (was?) a hex editor for linux called bev that might do the > trick. The problem with using dd and grep (e.g., dd if=/dev/hda | grep > 'string') is the best you will get is that the string you're interested > in is somewhere on the disk. You may want to have a look at lde on sourceforge. Latest I have is 2.6.1. Sorry, I don't have a URL for you. Bob -- brtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
