Re: I feel for "Aapt"'s pain
Yes, there are disk editors for *nix. I don't recommend trying them out just for random fucking around, they are dangerous tools and probably shouldn't be used by your average Ubuntu "sysadmin" who thinks that RTFM and understanding it is for old-farts..
Most (all??) versions of *nix since before BSD have had tools to keep an eye on which files, disks, devices etc a program was accessing or attempting to access.