[TUHS] Unix v7 icheck dup problem

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Mar 2 06:52:02 AEST 2023


On Wed, 1 Mar 2023, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> > I am having a problem clearing a dup inode.
> 
> V6 had almost no tools for automagically fixing file system corruption. 
> To do it, you need to i) understand how the FS works (see:

I could've sworn that I wrote a paper for AUUGN on that very thing, but 
I'm damned if I can find it...  Anyone here remember it?  It explained 
exactly how to use icheck/dcheck/ncheck/clri on a creamed file system (and 
no, I no longer have the document).

-- Dave


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