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Old 05-30-2005
Direct disk access

Is there any way to write to disk sector by sector, without any files, filesystems etc. I did that in DOS, but that was DOS.
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Old 05-30-2005
Databases often do that. You write to /dev/rdsk/something where something depends on the os in question.
# 3  
Old 05-31-2005
So, if I create raw disk device, it'll possible to use it as one big random access file with fseek()'s
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Old 05-31-2005
You should not need to create it, it is usually there.
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