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device-block-browser

Device-block-browser is a project mainly written in Python, it's free.

Free Block Browser Watch free blocks and fragmentation of your harddisk

Warning:

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK While using this tools, your device files will be accessed with root privileges.

How to use:

  • run "create_scheme_file.py" in order to create a scheme file for a given device
  • use pypy or psyco in order to speed the script up for large devices
  • in order to actually browse the free blocks, adjust this line in blockbrowser.py: self.scheme_file = zero_one_scheme_file("sda3_1.01") here you need to insert the scheme_file, you've created before.
  • now run "blockbrowser.py"

Requires:

  • dumpe2fs
  • debugfs
  • GTK