Re[2]: recover file after cat /dev/null > file

[Keith Matthews <keith_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:13:28 -0700 Jim Cistaro <Jim Cistaro 
<jim.cistaro@xxxxxx>> wrote:

> The file is large ~8GB.
> By catting the partition I could determine the offset of the start of 
> the data for the first inode.

> Would this help.
> Can you point me to any documention that might discuss this?

You can do better than that. There are tools that will allow you to
browse filsystems at a low level. I tried one and it did work on XFS
(at a byte level so it should have).

Have a hunt on freshmeat.


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