[Lilux-help] directory entries - how to get a close look

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jay Christnach wrote:

[dumping a directory entry]

> have you tried testdisk? You may display raw sectors with it and also
> directory entries with inode numbers. I just had a look for you, I didn't
> find out though how to display the directory entries in raw format.
> It's a rather uncomfortable program, I used it once to analyze a messy fat
> partition table (Windows wouldn't boot because of wrong chs to lba
> translation, really weard why it somehow still needs chs). Perhaps you find
> out how it can be used for your goal.

Hey, that one looks interesting. Not sure if I can use it for
what I want to do, but interesting anyhow.

For those who don't know testdisk (I didn't either so far):


Partition scanner and disk recovery tool

TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very
useful in recovering lost partitions. It works with :

 - FAT12
 - FAT16
 - FAT32
 - NTFS (Windows NT)
 - EXT2FS/EXT3FS (Linux)
 - Linux Swap (1 & 2)
 - IBM Multiboot
 - BeFS (BeOS)
 - UFS (BSD)
 - ReiserFS (1 & 2)

Greets Eric