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Vagabon

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:38 am
Post subject: Finding Swap Space
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I was wondering if anyone knew who to access the swap space on a
computer to read from it (I have a hex editor). I was just wondering
how to call all the data that the swap space contains. Anyone know how
to do this, or a program that does it?

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Arno Wagner

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:55 am
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Previously Vagabon <jeromehollon RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew who to access the swap space on a
> computer to read from it (I have a hex editor). I was just wondering
> how to call all the data that the swap space contains. Anyone know how
> to do this, or a program that does it?

What OS?

Arno

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Vagabon

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:07 am
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Alexander Grigorie

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:55 pm
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You need to boot from separate OS - either separate OS install, or from a
CD-based OS (WinXP PE or Linux).
You won't be able to open *live* swap file in any OS, Not XP, not Linux, not
even Win9X.

"Vagabon" <jeromehollon DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Win XP
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Jerry Peters

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:55 pm
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Alexander Grigoriev <alegr.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You need to boot from separate OS - either separate OS install, or from a
> CD-based OS (WinXP PE or Linux).
> You won't be able to open *live* swap file in any OS, Not XP, not Linux, not
> even Win9X.
>
> "Vagabon" <jeromehollon.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1142449670.082049.222820@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> Win XP
>>

Under Linux it's possible to read an active swap partition:

/home/gap# uname -a
Linux peregrine 2.6.15 #23 Tue Jan 10 10:23:36 EST 2006 i686 unknown
unknown GNU/Linux
/home/gap# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used
Priority
/dev/hda9 partition 506008 152
-1
/home/gap# dd if=/dev/hda9 bs=4098 count=1 of=/tmp/swap1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
/home/gap# ls -l /tmp/swap1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4098 2006-03-16 17:21 /tmp/swap1

I also suspect it's possible to _write_ to the active swap partition,
but I'm not about to try _that_.

Jerry
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