Subject: Re: Direct disk access
To: Oli <ssu97opc@reading.ac.uk>
From: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/30/1998 18:30:54
Oli wrote:
>
> Is there such a thing as a unix disk editor? preferably for a hard drive.
>
> erm, this may actually be a damn silly question, but I'm very new to the
> whole unix thing.

It depends at what level you mean. If you want to fix a broken
filesystem you can use fsdb.

I would recommend against trying to use vi on the raw device, however
:-)

Cheers

Rob