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From: brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: From blocks to files (on a UNIXpc)
Message-ID: <462@manta.pha.pa.us>
Date: 8 Feb 89 18:20:13 GMT
Reply-To: brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes)
Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia
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Given a block number, how can I find out (a) if it's part of a file,
and (b) what file it's part of?

Why might this be useful?  Say you wake up one morning to discover a
bad block error in your unix.log.  If you knew whether the block was
allocated, and what file it was part of, you might be able to avoid
having to reformat the disk.  Though I'm not sure what effect adding a
bad block entry has on the freelist.
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science
brant@manta.pha.pa.us, brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, bpa!manta!brant