<div dir="ltr">Darn quick answer! Thanks Sylvain, that may be all i need to start!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-06-26 7:51 GMT+02:00 Sylvain Henry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sylvain@haskus.fr" target="_blank">sylvain@haskus.fr</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Hi,</p>
    <p>It is not Haskell specific. You just have to read from the
      partition device special file (e.g., something like /dev/sdb2) as
      you would do with a normal file. You must have the permission to
      do so (e.g., be root). Be careful as you can destroy your system
      if you write something incorrect in your partitions.<br>
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    <p>Repositioning handles:
<a class="m_-1112427065420318176moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-8.20/base-4.9.1.0/System-IO.html#g:13" target="_blank">https://www.stackage.org/<wbr>haddock/lts-8.20/base-4.9.1.0/<wbr>System-IO.html#g:13</a><br>
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    <p>Read/write:
<a class="m_-1112427065420318176moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-8.20/base-4.9.1.0/System-IO.html#v:hPutBuf" target="_blank">https://www.stackage.org/<wbr>haddock/lts-8.20/base-4.9.1.0/<wbr>System-IO.html#v:hPutBuf</a></p>
    <p>Sylvain<br>
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    <div class="m_-1112427065420318176moz-cite-prefix">On 26/06/2017 07:35, Silent Leaf wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi,
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        <div>I'd like to be able to read and write from/to partitions
          directly. I've had trouble with the documentation (honestly i
          can't find anything, and any mention of partitions leads to
          mathematical partitioning of lists or whatever).</div>
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        <div>I obviously would need to be able to write or read from a
          specific position in the partition. Mind you that would be
          good too for files (that is, being able to read/write from a
          specific position in it) since i plan on making disk images.</div>
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        <div>Thanks in advance!</div>
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