Read a single sector from a disk

Question

I am trying to read a single specific sector from the disk directly. I\'ve currently run out of ideas and any suggestions how to go about it would be great!

Answer 1

The other folks have pretty much covered it. You need to

• access to the disk's device file (either be root or, better, change the permissions on it)

• use the file IO functions to read sectors = chunks of (usually) 512 bytes from said disk.