From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 12:56:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA26889 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 12:56:57 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA26785 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 12:53:58 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19729; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:52:06 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id VAA22666 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:52:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA16574 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:48:06 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503162048.VAA16574@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Something is wrong with fsck... To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:48:05 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199503160826.AAA10652@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 16, 95 00:26:10 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 815 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > and the manpage references fsdb(8) ... I once started to create an fsdb, but didn't get much far. What would people like to have done there? Perhaps, if there's a reasonable interest, i could put it on my personal list of things that ``might be done some day''. The old fsdb as i've seen it on some SysV-alike systems had a terrible syntax. When going for a rewrite, i'd prefer somethin more rationale. But it's always bothering me that the only chance to get a file system fsck'd is to answer all the questions there with the defaults (making it effectively behave identical to an ``fsck -y''), no chance to even correct something. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)