Re: Using xfsdump On Linux With IRIX Version 1 FS?

Christian Kujau
2009-07-25T03:53:30Z

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 at 15:13, Sean Elble wrote:
> Yeah, that's probably what I'll do then. I figure the disk will thrash for
> a while during the search for a string in /etc/shadow, but hopefully it'll

Instead of working on the (old, slow) disk, you could just work on the
backup (located on faster disk, I presume), maybe even set up a
blockdevice for it:

# losetup -r /dev/loop0 /path/to/IRIXbackup
# hexedit /dev/loop0 ...or whatever tool you'll be using.

Christian.
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