Coldblackice
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Is it possible to put files into sectors of a HD that will be (over)written to very last?
For example, if I have an HD with a hundred 1MB slots, I'm wondering if it's possible to know beforehand which of those hundred slots will be the very last ones to be written to (when the HD is being filled up with data). Ideally, I'd like to store "overwriteable" files in these tail-end sectors that won't be overwritten until all other HD sectors are full/written.
So in terms of the example, if I knew beforehand that sectors #97, 98, and 99 would be the very last ones to get written to, I'd like to store a file in each of those, but while still having those sectors marked as "writeable" space, so the OS sees them as "free" space.
Is this possible? I've wondered if this might be somehow doable via partitioning, but I'm unsure whether the OS or the HD firmware makes the determining choice of which available sectors get written to next.
For example, if I have an HD with a hundred 1MB slots, I'm wondering if it's possible to know beforehand which of those hundred slots will be the very last ones to be written to (when the HD is being filled up with data). Ideally, I'd like to store "overwriteable" files in these tail-end sectors that won't be overwritten until all other HD sectors are full/written.
So in terms of the example, if I knew beforehand that sectors #97, 98, and 99 would be the very last ones to get written to, I'd like to store a file in each of those, but while still having those sectors marked as "writeable" space, so the OS sees them as "free" space.
Is this possible? I've wondered if this might be somehow doable via partitioning, but I'm unsure whether the OS or the HD firmware makes the determining choice of which available sectors get written to next.