Use of GHEX editor

[Ganesh Patil]

Hi all,

 

      I have to use GHEX editor to learn internal representation of ext4 file system.I have google out about GHEX editor but I am not able to understand. please suggest me any another editor which helps to learn internal representation of ext4 file system. 

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Regards,
Ganesh Patil.

[Gaurav Mahajan]

Hi,

Hi this might help you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hex_editors

I feel you will not get the complete representation of file system through hex dump of file that is very difficult and requires lot of patience & skill to understand. Because filesystem uses bitmaps to store metadata.
A better way is you trace the ext4 code, rather than searching hex dump of filesystem.

Regards,
Gaurav Mahajan.