Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:18:09 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Grepping though a disk Message-ID: <CADGWnjVCtuMSQGkzBJoBVNL3mkZfXuQzR1c8O=m46wcOHnkOjw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130304013608.7981e8a9.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20130304013608.7981e8a9.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > Any suggestion is welcome! How about crawling the metadata, locating each block that is already allocated, and skip those blocks when you scan the disk? That could reduce the searching space significantly. blkls(1) et al. from the Sleuth Kit are your friends. Good luck, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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