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- Subject: Minix file system checker
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 93 13:00:34 +0100
- From: Erling Henanger <erlingh@idt.unit.no>
-
- Well, I have sort of an fsck up and running now.
- It is not based on neither the unix nor minix fsck.
- What it does, is to:
- Find all I-nodes and Blocks that is marked as used
- but is in fact not used in any file.
- Find all I-nodes and Blocks that is marked as used
- twice (and is not marked twice because of a hard-link)
- Find all files with unknown file type
- (eg. not a regular file/symlink/directory)
- It has options to auto-fix, or fix interactively any
- logical errors found on the specified partition.
- It works on both V1 and V2 filesystems, and with arbitrary
- file-name length.
-
- Now, are there any brave souls out there, ready to test this
- beast ? I don't feel like donating this sort of utility to
- a.a before it has been tested by people who know what to
- do in case of disaster...
-
- BTW: I have tested it on my two 60 Mb partitions, and it
- did find errors, and I did dare to do an "auto-fix".
- Well, the partitions are still alive, and doing fine :-)
-
- The program is written in, well, sort of c++, although
- it is not very well designed... To be honest, it isn't
- designed, I just programmed it... making up structures
- and stupid classes as I needed them. In few words; it
- is not a good example of how to write object-oriented
- programs.
-
- To receive a copy of the program, just mail me a request,
- and I'll mail the source+binary as a uuencoded zoo'ed
- archive.
-
- Erling
-