Re[2]: get a file by its sector

Hello Maxim,

Could you clarify how?

As I understand DDK/MSDN says that this control code retrieves the
allocation and location on disk of a specific file. But I need a
reverse operation: i.e. retrieve a file by the given sector.

Thanks in advance


Roman Kudinov

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Wednesday, June 23, 2004, 2:04:52 PM, you wrote:

MSS> It can.

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MSS> Subject: [ntfsd] get a file by its sector

>> Hello
>>
>> Is there any easy way to determine to what file a particular sector
>> belongs?
>>
>> It seems that FSCTL_GET_RETRIEVAL_POINTERS can’t help
>>
>> –
>> Roman
>>
>>
>>
>> —
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