"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 13:28, Francesco Pirozzi wrote: > > > Actually, lde is the tool I'm using and I'm looking for a command-line procedure > > to search throughout the fs in order to find all the data blocks that are not just > > filled with zeros. > > Can you suggest me any, please? > > It won't help. Disk sectors are not pre-formatted to zero, or are > unused blocks initialised to zero during mkfs, so you probably won't see > any zero blocks at all on disk unless they represent valid null data > that the filesystem has deliberately written there. > > Cheers, > Stephen I understand... But, one last thing: do you think that the first block of each overwritten file is somewhere intact - so that I can search the disk for format headers - or do I have to rebuild the puzzle from the second block (or deeper)? _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
