fsck

[R.Mahendran_1]

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

I need the internal details of fsck.

[Stefan Farrelly]

Its right there in the man page;

man fsck_vxfs
man fsck_hfs

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

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