Index of /Tools/Filesys/
These programs are used to get files back from old Unix disk images. Many were
written ages ago, and my need to be ported to 32-bit and/or big-endian machines.
Here's a chart of what each is supposed to do what, and my success with using
it on a 32-bit little-endian machine (an i486 running FreeBSD).
v5 v6 v7 2.9BSD 32V
filesys filesys filesys filesys filesys
cpfs ?
getunix ? ? ? ?
grab Y Y Y ?
traverse ?
? = it's supposed to, but I haven't tried it yet
Y = it worked on my FreeBSD box
v7fs-0.1.tar.gz Readme
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This is a heavily updated version of the v7 version 7 Unix filesystem access
program as written by Mike Karels back in the early 1980s. The original
program assumed that it was being compiled on a PDP-11 and was written in
'old' style C. The purpose behind the program is to allow easy access to a
V7 filesystem image from the native Unix system. Many people running V7 Unix
are doing so within an emulator running on some other flavour of Unix, and
easy access to the files resident on the V7 filesystem can be useful.
Bostic Tools Readme
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Keith Bostic sent these tools in to the archive. They used to be able to
read v6 and v7 filesystems, and ar(1) archives. I didn't get them to compile
cleanly on a i486 running FreeBSD -- Warren
Cpfs Readme
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Cpfs is a program which converts an image of a version 6 UNIX file
system into a 4.2 Unix directory hierarchy.
Getunix Readme
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Getunix retrieves the named sourcefile from a UNIX file sys-
tem. If a targetfile is specified, the copy is placed
there; otherwise the contents of the file are written to
standard output. If the targetfile named is a directory,
the file is copied there with the same basename as the
original.
Grab Readme
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This is meant to be used with dual-ported disks or controllers
when it is either impossible or undesirable to mount another
file system on that medium. It should allow any Version 6 or
Version 7 (2.9BSD, 4.1BSD) system to read filesystems from any
Version 6 or Version 7 (2.9BSD, 4.1BSD) system even if the systems
are not of the same type. Version 6 systems will need at least
a Phototypesetter level C compiler to make "grab". "Grab" will
copy any conceivable (?) object on a filesystem including directories
(recursively), links, file holes, setuid/setgid/sticky files and
device nodes. "Grab" tries to prevent unauthorized readers from
gazing at remote files but the only reliable way of maintaining
security is to make "grab" setgid and then make fs's readable by
group and not by other. ("Df" should work this way too.)
Traverse Readme
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I also just dumped the "traverse.c" program I use to extract the RK05
image stuff into the modern world. It is far from pretty (only run on a
DEV/MIPS box running Ultrix 4.2 so I've no idea about the portability,
circa 1991). -- Ken Wellsch