Get notified about the change in raw data in hard disk sector - File change notification

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Published on 2012-10-10T09:21:55Z Indexed on 2012/10/10 9:37 UTC
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I'm trying to make a software that backups my entire hard drive.

I've managed to write a code for reading the raw data from hard disk sectors. However, i want to have incremental backups. For that i need to know the changed made to OS settings, file changes, everything.

My question is -

Using FileSystemWatcher and Inotify, will i be able to know every change made to every sector in the hard drive ? (OS settings etc)

I'm coding it in C++ for linux and windows.

(Saw this question on Stackoverflow which gave me some idea)

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