would this be a useful utility?

[Will Andrews]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:51:56AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> We have a toolkit that includes such things as:
> 
>  showing which cylinder groups a file was allocated into
> or
>  dumping all the blocks a file is on...
> 
> I've often wanted this. I wonder if it is worth importing it
> or making it a port?

This would be useful to obtain the disk blocks (cylinders?) a
file was allocated into so that it could be specifically
overwritten after being deleted from the filesystem tree.

I don't think C++ is a problem.  We ship g++ in FreeBSD.

Regards,
-- 
wca
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