Re: [PEN-TEST] Raw Disk Mounter

[Berend De Schouwer <bds () jhb ucs co za>]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 03:33:53 Clem Colman wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Do you know of any file systems or products that just allow you to mount
> partitions and just read the tracks as raw data, dump it to a file etc on
> another file etc.
>
> The problem is I know what I'm looking for but can't mount the disk using
> the correct file system type.
>
> Ideas?

What is wrong with: 'cat /dev/sda1 > /tmp/myfile'?  You can also try
'vi /dev/sda1', but that could be horribly slow ;)

If you want to edit it sector-by-sector, you can try this /bin/bash
script:

# Initialize SECTORS, and SIZE from fdisk.
I=0
while [ ${I} -lt ${SECTORS} ]
do
        dd if=/dev/sda1 seek=${I} bs=${SIZE} count=1 of=/tmp/sector.${I}
        I=$[ ${I} + 1 ]
done

It should copy all the sectors, sector by sector, to /tmp/sector.*
Chances are you'll overflow $I somewhere along the line, so take care.

> Thanks,
> Clem.

Kind regards,                           
Berend

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