[ale] Reading disks?

[dev null zero two]

you're confusing terms but the principal is the same. filesystems write
data in blocks, drives write data in sectors.

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On May 19, 2016 10:37 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Technically, yes - you can read each block and if you know enough about
> the files, rebuild them from the blocks
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:07 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Office conversation today and I wanted to verify my understanding is
>> correct. Data is written to disk in "stripes", a "stripe" being X length.
>> My understanding is that if you access the disk you can read those stripes
>> of data. An entire file may not be readable but you could get strings of
>> data.
>>
>> Is that a correct statement?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Leam
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