Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!think.com!mintaka!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!NewsServ!marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de!bs From: bs@marvin.e17.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Bernhard Schneck) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 91 16:28:26 GMT References: <821@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> <11714@helios.TAMU.EDU> <43579@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Feb2.113410.23943@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@newsserv.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Distribution: comp Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Lines: 22 >I don't remember how hard it is to get around the restriction to writing >directories as if they were files, but that would seem easier than >clearing the inode and then picking up the peices of the file system. Of >course if writing to the directory was becoming a problem, you could >always get the directory's sector number from it's Inode and pull out a >sector editor on the appropriate block /device. :-) Not even that hard ... unmount the filesystem, and run fsdb (the file system debugger) on it. My SysV.3.2 box had one for ths S51K, and the 4.3-tahoe and 4.3-reno releases have it for FFS (4.2) filesystems (in /etc and /sbin resp.) >Jamie ... "Who was that Masked Interrupt?" \Bernhard. -- Bernhard Schneck Internet: B.Schneck@Marvin.E17.Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE TU Muenchen Physik E17 Postmaster@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE 8046 Garching BitNET : schneck@dgablg5p West Germany