Oli wrote:
> 
> Is there such a thing as a unix disk editor? preferably for a hard drive.
> 
> erm, this may actually be a damn silly question, but I'm very new to the
> whole unix thing.

Probably. Why would you want one though? You can get a discs directly
via the raw devices (/dev/rwd... for IDE of /dev/rsd... for SCSI) and
use commands like dd to read/write chunks... Essentially the device
files allow whole discs to be treated just like they were files.