topic Re: fsck in Operating System - HP-UX

fsck

R.Mahendran_1 — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:22:50 GMT

Can any one describe..
How fsck recovers a filesystem,step by step?

I need the internal details of fsck.

Re: fsck

Stefan Farrelly — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:27:22 GMT

Its right there in the man page;

man fsck_vxfs
man fsck_hfs

Re: fsck

Steven Sim Kok Leong — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:31:10 GMT

Hi,

If you really want the "internals" of fsck, only the source code for opensource OSes such as RedHat Linux are available for grabs.

For RedHat Linux, you can get it from:

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.27-3.src.rpm

Reading the source code "internals" will give you the picture of exactly how it works.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong