Subject: Re: panic: bad dir
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Ruibiao Qiu <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/11/2001 14:19:44
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, der Mouse wrote:

>About all I can suggest is to boot from another disk and try to patch
>the filesystem up.  If necessary, take the disk to another machine and
>do it there.  "Patch up" here can mean a variety of things; personally,
>I'd start with fsck -n, see what it thinks is trashed, then start
>dumping inode contents to see if I could make any intelligent guesses
>about what needs to be patched.  Unless you have the tools and
>knowledge to do that, you may have to just fsck it and then look to see
>if the damage done was severe enough to render it unusable....

This is a disk on an SS5 box.  Can I fsck it on an i386 box?

          Regards

            Ruibiao