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- From: stigvi@Lise.Unit.NO (Stig Vidar Hovland)
- Subject: Re: MiNT & minix filesystem questions...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.160531.2364@ugle.unit.no>
- Keywords: MiNT, minix, rz, sz
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:05:31 GMT
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- In article <C1Huwp.7un@agora.rain.com>, erics@agora.rain.com (Eric Stuyvesant) writes:
- > Hello, all.
- > Second, what tools are available for checking the integrity of and fixing minix
- > partitions, short of buying minix? I'm looking for something with the
- > abilities of chkdisk3 from Atari. Obviously, none of the filesystem
- > checkers I've run across understand inodes and such. If there is nothing
- > out there (PD or commercial), any pointers to cost and availability of
- > minix would be appreciated. I really don't know much about *IX
- > filesystems, but is it naive to hope that fsck for e.g. BSD 4.4 could be
- > made to work on an ST minix partition without major hacking?
- >
- There is a program for checking minix filesystems on a BBS in Oslo, Norway, called ABK BBS.
- The person which has written this program is Erling Henanger and you can probably
- get in contact with him on the Internet address erlingh@idt.unit.no
-
- Stig Vidar Hovland - stigvi@lise.unit.no
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