donegan@stanton.UUCP ( Owner) (06/05/89)
I'm sorry if this has been covered before, but is there source code available which would allow me(root) to edit a directory file directly? The reason for this need is that every once in a while either inews or xbbs fries a directory entry. This is rare, but the process of tar'ing a large file tree and rm -r'ing it and then untar'ing it is a little tedious when I can see via hd exactly what the problem is. The fsck utility does not catch this particular problem. Thanks for any help... -- Steven P. Donegan These opinions are given on MY time, not Area Telecommunications Engineer Western Digital's - They wouldn't agree! Western Digital Corp. stanton!donegan || donegan@stanton.UUCP || donegan%stanton@UUCP
jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) (06/07/89)
In article <603@stanton.UUCP> donegan@stanton.UUCP ( Owner) writes: >I'm sorry if this has been covered before, but is there source code available >which would allow me(root) to edit a directory file directly? Nope. Only the kernel can write to a directory. Even allmighty root can't do that. However, if you're really bored, I guess that you could go into the raw filesystem, search for the block on-disk, and tweek it there. :-) :-) (Don't do this at home kids...) -Jeff