searching a disk but excluding files
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#100 searching a disk but excluding files
Perhaps we only want to search parts of a device that are not contained in a file visible in the directory or in the FAT or equivalent in any file system or volume. For example, suppose sectors 1 and 3 are in a file that can be opened in the normal ways, but sectors 2 and 4 were long ago cut loose. I'd like to be able to search only sectors 2 and 4, by searching only everything that's not in a file. It would require that wxHexEditor first make a list of all the sectors not to be searched and that would take a little time, but, in total, this would usually speed up a search.
I don't remember seeing a disk editor that could do that, but I haven't looked at very many. If no other disk editor can do this, it would give wxHexEditor a competitive advantage over other disk editors.
I ran wxHexEditor 0.22 on openSuse 13.2 Linux, kept evergreen, and don't know how to set up 0.23.
Well, If I understand correctly,
It's highly specific requirement for a job.
I do not believe if there are such a need shared with hex/disk editor users.
Because searching does not take too much time.
Specially with current SSD age.
So it doesn't worth the effort that need to coding it.
Wont-fix this one.
Regards.