Luthis, you're doing God's work here. You are learning by experimentation and then, importantly, documenting and sharing what you've learned. There is absolutely zero wrong and only good to be had in either of those and in combining them, you're doing service to our entire community.
Thanks! I will keep it up!
Sounds like a good time to me!! Hey and look at all that wasted space you found 😹
Of course that was worth 3 hours. Every tinkering/experimenting is worth it. In the worst case you gain experience
Yeah now I stand a better chance of recovering files if something catastrophic happens
You wasted three hours so you can share this knowledge :D
True, now you have the power to find your files manually!
Tried a different way:
filefrag -v testfile
Filesystem type is: ef53
File size of testfile is 6 (1 block of 4096 bytes)
ext: logical_offset: physical_offset: length: expected: flags:
0: 0.. 0: 4660742.. 4660742: 1: last,eof
Went to offset 4660742 in wxhexeditor, but still when I copy out the hex and convert to ascii, it's nonsense
Not much related, but I want to chime in to express my gratitude for what I consider the most underrated piece of software in the FOSS ecosystem. Better known hex editors pale in comparison to wxHexEditor in terms of features and user interface. I suggest you to tweak the colors for better viewing (I can share my configuration file) and to upgrade to the latest unstable revision because many important fixes landed since the last stable version.
Yeah definitely share your config! I've only just scratched the surface with wxHexEditor
Language=English
UpdateCheck=1
LastUpdateCheckTime=1.698e+09
ColourHexForeground=#DEDDDA
ColourHexBackground=#000000
ColourHexBackgroundZebra=#3D3846
ColourHexSelectionForeground=#000000
ColourHexSelectionBackground=#613583
UseCustomHexFormat=0
CustomHexFormat=xx
UseBytesPerLineLimit=1
BytesPerLineLimit=16
CharacterEncodingFamily=DOS
CharacterEncoding=OEM - IBM PC/DOS CP437 - MS-DOS Latin US
FontSize=10
AutoShowTagPanel=1
ScreenX=26
ScreenY=23
ScreenW=618
ScreenH=716
ScreenFullScreen=0
FakeBlockLines=0
FakeBlockSize=8k
SingleInstance=0
ZebraStriping=1
SelectedChecksumFunctions=32648
CompareOptions=0
CompareOptionStopAfter=0
CompareOptionMergeSection=0
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