2 Mar
2023
2 Mar
'23
3:29 a.m.
I'm not sure if 'fsck' would fix these
Turns out it was called 'fcheck' when we had it.
I have a V6 one
I'd already put it on my Web site, here:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s1/fcheck.c
if anyone wants it.
From: "Ron Natalie"
You had adb?
Yeah, MIT had a lot of stuff that 'fell off the back of a truck' (including
things like the circuit design tools, etc). Well, having an undergrad who was
in the famous Boy Scout troop at Bell helped... :-)
From: KenUnix <ken.unix.guy(a)gmail.com>
What I finally did was restore the ".disk"
files from a previous backup
You may sit with Arlo Guthrie on the 'Windows user' bench. :-)
From: "Theodore Ts'o"
some have argued that if someone doesn't do
backups of their research
data, maybe they don't *deserve* to get their Ph.D. :-)
'Think of it as evolution in action.'
Although I like the old story about the person at their oral exam and
the Coke bottle in the window.
Noel