[TUHS] Unix v7 icheck dup problem

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Thu Mar 2 17:34:47 AEST 2023


Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> 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

So Dave, did you clri the wrong inode such that your lost the paper? :-) :-)


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