[PLUG] determining files associated with particular sectors?

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Aug 26 16:42:57 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 00:55 -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> Is there a utility that will tell me, given a sector number within a
> device, which file is allocated to that sector?  I am seeing a few bad
> sectors on the old laptop drive (as I copy the files over) and want to
> ensure I patch up any associated bitrot.

I think debugfs will tell you that; it seems to be able to tell you
pretty much everything else you rarely need to know...

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd. <http://nakedape.cc>
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