From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-11-29T09:48:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby byte access to disk sectors like dd does



On Nov 26, 2:07 pm, Gary Hasson <g...@oax.net> wrote:
> I have been unable to find any reference to Ruby methods that provide
> raw disk access the way dd does. I frequently use the Linux utility
> program, dd, and would like to be able to do the same type of byte-level
> and sector-level access to the hard drive with Ruby. (What I am looking
> for is not file access.) Are there Ruby methods to provide this
> capability (other than having Ruby access dd)?

gem install sys-filesystem

Regards,

Dan