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3.\" Copyright (c) 1995 John T. Kohl
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1.\" $NetBSD: fsdb.8,v 1.2 1995/10/08 23:18:08 thorpej Exp $
2.\"
3.\" Copyright (c) 1995 John T. Kohl
4.\" All rights reserved.
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6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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29.\" $FreeBSD: head/sbin/fsdb/fsdb.8 96707 2002-05-16 04:10:46Z trhodes $
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31.Dd September 14, 1995
32.Dt FSDB 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm fsdb
36.Nd FFS debugging/editing tool
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl d
40.Op Fl f
41.Op Fl r
42.Ar fsname
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
30.\"
31.Dd September 14, 1995
32.Dt FSDB 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm fsdb
36.Nd FFS debugging/editing tool
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl d
40.Op Fl f
41.Op Fl r
42.Ar fsname
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44.Nm Fsdb
45opens
44The
45.Nm
46utility opens
46.Ar fsname
47(usually a raw disk partition) and runs a command loop
48allowing manipulation of the filesystem's inode data. You are prompted
49to enter a command with
50.Ic "fsdb (inum X)>"
51where
52.Va X
53is the currently selected i-number. The initial selected inode is the

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221try changing a symlink's type).
222.Pp
223You must specify modes as numbers rather than symbolic names.
224.Pp
225There are a bunch of other things that you might want to do which
226.Nm
227doesn't implement.
228.Sh HISTORY
47.Ar fsname
48(usually a raw disk partition) and runs a command loop
49allowing manipulation of the filesystem's inode data. You are prompted
50to enter a command with
51.Ic "fsdb (inum X)>"
52where
53.Va X
54is the currently selected i-number. The initial selected inode is the

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222try changing a symlink's type).
223.Pp
224You must specify modes as numbers rather than symbolic names.
225.Pp
226There are a bunch of other things that you might want to do which
227.Nm
228doesn't implement.
229.Sh HISTORY
229.Nm Fsdb
230uses the source code for
230The
231.Nm
232utility uses the source code for
231.Xr fsck 8
232to implement most of the filesystem manipulation code. The remainder of
233.Nm
234first appeared in
235.Nx ,
236written by
237.An John T. Kohl .
238.Pp
239.An Peter Wemm
240ported it to
241.Fx .
242.Sh WARNING
243Use this tool with extreme caution--you can damage an FFS filesystem
244beyond what
245.Xr fsck 8
246can repair.
233.Xr fsck 8
234to implement most of the filesystem manipulation code. The remainder of
235.Nm
236first appeared in
237.Nx ,
238written by
239.An John T. Kohl .
240.Pp
241.An Peter Wemm
242ported it to
243.Fx .
244.Sh WARNING
245Use this tool with extreme caution--you can damage an FFS filesystem
246beyond what
247.Xr fsck 8
248can repair.