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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Disk corrupt - task held
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Date: 16 Jun 88 14:54:02 GMT
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Mike Meyer wrote:
> Nuts - Unix got to
>v6 (or was it v7) without having tools for fixing broken file systems.
>Unless you think adb and clri qualify.

We used "diddlei", which was a minimal binary debugger that understood
inode structures, letting us read/write at will to different inodes.
Not fsdb nor even fsck but better than nothing. This was v6 Unix. But
come to think of it, I don't think it was part of the standard release...
pretty sure that Jeff Schriebman wrote it locally (at Berkeley).
	Doug
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