unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Fix the destroyed disk image partition table in a raw image file using Emacs.
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:34:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POL0ynTnvtFFoV_Gb2ePeAAgTBDfYAVdNrTnZv+QSYdcVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I've two disk image files whose partuuid info are shown as below based
on the method discussed here on
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/419104/what-is-partuuid-from-blkid-when-using-msdos-partition-table>:

$ dd if=openwrt-19.07.7-x86-64-combined-ext4.img bs=1 count=4 skip=440
2>/dev/null | od -t x4 -An
eb3ae1bb
$ dd if=disk.img bs=1 count=4 skip=440 2>/dev/null | od -t x4 -An
761b36b0

In order to change the partuuid of the 2nd disk image to the value of
the 1st, I do the following operation:

$ dd if=openwrt-19.07.7-x86-64-combined-ext4.img of=disk.img bs=1
count=4 skip=440 seek=440
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4 bytes copied, 0.000195385 s, 20.5 kB/s
$ dd if=disk.img bs=1 count=4 skip=440 2>/dev/null | od -t x4 -An
eb3ae1bb

But it turns out that the disk.img will be destroyed by the above
operation. So, the only usable info for now is the following data
snippet extracted from the corresponding place of the original image:

$ dd if=disk.img bs=1 count=4 skip=440 2>/dev/null | od -t x4 -An
761b36b0

It's well known that Emacs is an 8-bit clean editor which makes it
safe to edit binary files. So, I want to whether I can fix the above
destroyed disk image file with Emacs for my scenario.

Regards,
HY
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China



             reply	other threads:[~2021-04-11 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-11 13:34 Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-04-11 13:39 ` Fix the destroyed disk image partition table in a raw image file using Emacs Jean Louis
2021-04-11 17:26   ` Dan Hitt
2021-04-11 18:45     ` tomas
2021-04-11 19:56       ` Dan Hitt
2021-04-11 20:58   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-11 21:15     ` GNU ELPA problem (was: Re: Fix the destroyed disk image partition table in a raw image file using Emacs.) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-11 19:18 ` Fix the destroyed disk image partition table in a raw image file using Emacs Gregor Zattler
2021-04-12  6:29   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-04-15 14:16   ` Hongyi Zhao

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAGP6POL0ynTnvtFFoV_Gb2ePeAAgTBDfYAVdNrTnZv+QSYdcVA@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=hongyi.zhao@gmail.com \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).