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From: alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: inode numbers
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 14:37:14 EDT
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> 
> Can anyone tell me what inode number 1 is?  I know 2 is root, and 0 is
> the superblock, but I can't figure out what 1 is.
> 
> 						Yosef Gold
> -- 
> Yosef Gold
> ...{philabs,cucard,pegasus,ihnp4,rocky2}!aecom!gold

Someone that worked at Bell Labs told me that some versions of UN*X
used inode number 1 to hold the bad blocks on a disk. That way fsck(1m)
didn't think that they were missing.
-- 

Alan Fargusson.

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