Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: How to read v6 distribution tapes? Message-ID: <19063@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 19 Feb 91 14:31:05 GMT References: <11872@alice.att.com> <2945@charon.cwi.nl> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service Lines: 18 X-Clever-Slogan: Recycle or Die. In article <2945@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >What I did do a long time ago was to write a program that would look at the >disk image on file and convert it to a complete directory structure. The >trick is to find inode #2 and start from there. I do not know, but perhaps, >if I look long enough in my archives, the program might even be sitting >somewhere. The v7 and v6 filesystems are very different. While the v7 filesystem has been described at great length in literature, I've never seen anything describing the v6 filesystem in any published document that can be repeated without violating licensing agreements. For example, the root inode in a v6 filesystem is inode 1 ... -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org "I've never written a device driver, but I have written a device driver manual" -- Robert Hartman, IDE Corp. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com