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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!news.mit.edu!bdc From: bdc@blackjack.ai.mit.du (Brian D. Carlstrom) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MSDOS Utility for reading UFS? Date: 31 Dec 1993 23:53:01 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 26 Message-ID: <BDC.93Dec31185302@blackjack.ai.mit.du> References: <BDC.93Dec25072257@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> <MARK_WEAVER.93Dec25230803@localhost.cs.brown.edu> <BDC.93Dec26211609@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> <vp.757209688@news.forth.gr> NNTP-Posting-Host: blackjack.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: vp@nemesis.csi.forth.gr's message of 30 Dec 1993 02:07:49 +0200 In article <vp.757209688@news.forth.gr> vp@nemesis.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis) writes: > In article <BDC.93Dec25072257@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> bdc@blackjack.ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes: > > I was wondering if anyone was ever writen a DOS utility to access Unix > > filesystems perphaps in a Norton Utilities style, to help repair ufs > > volumes from DOS when it all goes bad... currently i'm using NU to hand > Why not just have a unix boot disk with fsck on it? >beacuse sometimes fuzz-check f-sucks... If it sucks then fix the bloody thing instead of developing something entirely new that will almost certaintly have its own set of bugs and other probs. Come on be realistic, there are times when you ought to start afresh and times when you should refrain from reinventing the wheel. i see a need for different tools for automated disk repair vs. manual disk editing. agreed, they can share a lot of code, but there is no way to make fsck hanlde all i cases i can without making it an expert system or similar, which i dont really have the time to do right now =) -bri