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- Introduction
- ------------
-
- 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 (1.22) - map fixer and analyst
- -----------------------------------
-
- 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 (1.12) - file eliminator!
- -----------------------------------
-
- 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 (1.02) - heavily damaged disc fixer
- -------------------------------------------
-
- 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
- -----------------
-
- The programs and files included in the fsck suite cannot be distributed
- separately.
- For the conditions of distribution and use, see the !SHAREWARE file.
-
-
- The latest informations about fsck and FSCK³ are available on Internet at:
- http://cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it/~pel0015/fsck.html
-
-
- I can be contacted at the following address:
-
- Sergio Monesi
- Via Trento e Trieste 30
- 20046 Biassono (MI)
- Italy
-
- E-mail address:
- pel0015@cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it
- If you don't receive a reply (or if the message is bounced) I can also be
- contacted at:
- sergio@freebsd.first.gmd.de
- or:
- sergio@phantom.com
-
- WWW:
- http://cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it/~pel0015/
-