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Fsck_130/!Intro
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File contents
Introduction
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fsck is a suite of programs that are able to analyse and fix E-Format discs.
If you are only interested to fix your broken disc soon, try to read the
!QuickFix file.
Here's a list and a brief description of the programs included in this
package:
fsck (1.30) - map fixer and analyst
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fsck is a disc utility that tries to fix the map of an E-Format disc (hard
or floppy) if it is corrupted for some obscure reasons. fsck can also report
some informations about the way the files are allocated (such as the bytes
lost because of sectors boundaries) and eventually print a detailed
description of the map and directories organization.
fsck can also be considered as a replace of the *CheckMap command because it
is faster, less prone to crash and gives useful informations on the files
allocation.
eliminate (1.20) - file eliminator!
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eliminate is a disc utility that eliminates a file from the directory but not
from the disc map. This means that the disc space used by the file is lost
(you should recover it using fsck). eliminate can effectively be useful only
to remove the files that cannot be deleted in the usual way by RISC OS (for
example a broken directory).
hardfix (1.10) - heavily damaged disc fixer
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hardfix is a disc utility that fixes the errors that can affect the boot
block, the 2 copies of the map and the root directory without having to scan
the whole directory tree. These sort of errors generally make the disc
un-readable or un-writable!
hardfix can also be used to write the bootblock, map and root directory to a
file, so that you can always try to restore them in case they are totally
damaged (ie. absolutely not-fixable).
Conditions of use
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The programs and files included in the fsck suite cannot be distributed
separately.
For the conditions of distribution and use, see the !SHAREWARE file.
Where to find more informations
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The latest informations about fsck are available on Internet at:
http://cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it/~pel0015/fsck.html
Contacting the Author
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Post: Sergio Monesi
Via Trento e Trieste 30
20046 Biassono (MI)
Italy
EMail: pel0015@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it
sergio@freebsd.first.gmd.de
WWW: http://cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it/~pel0015/
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Via Tren| 000008d0 74 6f 20 65 20 54 72 69 65 73 74 65 20 33 30 0a |to e Trieste 30.| 000008e0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 32 30 30 34 36 20 42 69 61 | 20046 Bia| 000008f0 73 73 6f 6e 6f 20 28 4d 49 29 0a 20 20 20 20 20 |ssono (MI). | 00000900 20 20 49 74 61 6c 79 0a 0a 45 4d 61 69 6c 3a 20 | Italy..EMail: | 00000910 70 65 6c 30 30 31 35 40 63 64 63 38 67 35 2e 63 |pel0015@cdc8g5.c| 00000920 64 63 2e 70 6f 6c 69 6d 69 2e 69 74 0a 20 20 20 |dc.polimi.it. | 00000930 20 20 20 20 73 65 72 67 69 6f 40 66 72 65 65 62 | sergio@freeb| 00000940 73 64 2e 66 69 72 73 74 2e 67 6d 64 2e 64 65 0a |sd.first.gmd.de.| 00000950 0a 57 57 57 3a 20 20 20 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 63 |.WWW: http://c| 00000960 64 63 38 67 35 2e 63 64 63 2e 70 6f 6c 69 6d 69 |dc8g5.cdc.polimi| 00000970 2e 69 74 2f 7e 70 65 6c 30 30 31 35 2f 0a |.it/~pel0015/.| 0000097e
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