Direct access to unmounted disks

Doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Thu Nov 4 01:24:14 UTC 2010


On 11/03/2010 04:52 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> mhullrich at gmail.com :
>> Are there any good utilities for doing i/o directly to disks that are
>> not mounted, possibly not properly formatted?
>>      
> Yes.
> - listing: sudo fdisk -l
> - read/write: dd
>    
Remember what dd is abbreviated from:

            Disk Destroyer

Just so you keep that in mind--doug


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