NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     fsdb -- FFS debugging/editing tool

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     fsdb [-d] [-f] [-r] fsname

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The fsdb utility opens fsname (usually a raw disk partition) and runs a
     command loop allowing manipulation of the file system's inode data.  You
     are prompted to enter a command with fsdb (inum X)> where X is the currently
 selected i-number.	The initial selected inode is the root of the
     file system (i-number 2).	The command processor uses the editline(3)
     library, so you can use command line editing to reduce typing if desired.
     When you exit the command loop, the file system superblock is marked
     dirty and any buffered blocks are written to the file system.

     The following options are available:

     -d      Enable additional debugging output (which comes primarily from
	     fsck(8)-derived code).

     -f      Left for historical reasons and has no meaning.

     -r      Open the file system read/only, and disables all commands that
	     would write to it.

COMMANDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Besides the built-in editline(3) commands, fsdb supports these commands:

     help    Print out the list of accepted commands.

     inode i-number
	     Select inode i-number as the new current inode.

     back    Revert to the previously current inode.

     clri i-number
	     Clear i-number.

     lookup name
     cd name
	     Find name in the current directory and make its inode the current
	     inode.  Name may be a multi-component name or may begin with
	     slash to indicate that the root inode should be used to start the
	     lookup.  If some component along the pathname is not found, the
	     last valid directory encountered is left as the active inode.
	     This command is valid only if the starting inode is a directory.

     active
     print   Print out the active inode.

     blocks  Print out the block list of the active inode.  Note that the
	     printout can become long for large files, since all indirect
	     block pointers will also be printed.
     uplink  Increment the active inode's link count.

     downlink
	     Decrement the active inode's link count.

     linkcount number
	     Set the active inode's link count to number.

     ls      List the current inode's directory entries.  This command is
	     valid only if the current inode is a directory.

     rm name
     del name
	     Remove the entry name from the current directory inode.  This
	     command is valid only if the current inode is a directory.

     ln ino name
	     Create a link to inode ino under the name name in the current
	     directory inode.  This command is valid only if the current inode
	     is a directory.

     chinum dirslot inum
	     Change the i-number in directory entry dirslot to inum.

     chname dirslot name
	     Change the name in directory entry dirslot to name.  This command
	     cannot expand a directory entry.  You can only rename an entry if
	     the name will fit into the existing directory slot.

     chtype type
	     Change the type of the current inode to type.  Type may be one
	     of: file, dir, socket, or fifo.

     chmod mode
	     Change the mode bits of the current inode to mode.  You cannot
	     change the file type with this subcommand; use chtype to do that.

     chflags flags
	     Change the file flags of the current inode to flags.

     chown uid
	     Change the owner of the current inode to uid.

     chgrp gid
	     Change the group of the current inode to gid.

     chgen gen
	     Change the generation number of the current inode to gen.

     mtime time
     ctime time
     atime time
	     Change the modification, change, or access time (respectively) on
	     the current inode to time.  Time should be in the format
	     YYYYMMDDHHMMSS[.nsec] where nsec is an optional nanosecond specification.
	If no nanoseconds are specified, the mtimensec,
	     ctimensec, or atimensec field will be set to zero.

     quit, q, exit, <EOF>
	     Exit the program.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     editline(3), fs(5), clri(8), fsck(8)

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Manipulation of ``short'' symlinks doesn't work (in particular, don't try
     changing a symlink's type).

     You must specify modes as numbers rather than symbolic names.

     There are a bunch of other things that you might want to do which fsdb
     doesn't implement.

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The fsdb utility uses the source code for fsck(8) to implement most of
     the file system manipulation code.  The remainder of fsdb first appeared
     in NetBSD, written by John T. Kohl.

     Peter Wemm ported it to FreeBSD.

WARNING    [Toc]    [Back]

     Use this tool with extreme caution--you can damage an FFS file system
     beyond what fsck(8) can repair.


FreeBSD 5.2.1		      September 14, 1995		 FreeBSD 5.2.1