files and disk sectors

[colin davidson]

Hi Matt,

You can definitely find out which file is at which sector. In fact,
there are probably many ways to do this. A last resort methods is to
dump the disk (dd the raw device). You have to have a larger partition
to do this, of course. Then you can use a binary editory and manually
examine and interpret the dump (you will have to understand
partitioning and filesystem formats to do this). As I said, a last
resort. Some filesystems come with tools - what filesystem do you have
on your disk? The answer to your question (and others, potentially)
will depend on that.

Assuming that you're using one of the "ext" family, you could check
wikipedia for useful information/links:

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2"

Cheers, Colin

On 2/4/09, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> while i'm thinking about this, is there a way to tell which files sit on
>  a particular disk sector?  something is accessing the bad sector on my
>  disk over and over again, presumably reading a config file or something;
>  if i could move that file to another sector things might get better for
>  me.
>
>  thx,
>  matt
>
>  ps i know i should get rid of the disk, or at least reformat and
>  restore, but i have a lot of big video files on this disk, for which i
>  have no backup space at the moment, and hwile it wouldn't kill me to
>  lose them i'd stil lrather not.  anyway appreciate the help as always...
>
>
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