[Info-vax] INDEXF.SYS

[hb]

On Jan 28, 12:58 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> It knows then the file is in a directory but this is NOT maintained
> if ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR is used.

True, the back link points to the directory the file IS in and not the
one the file WAS in. But that's a result of repairing the disk. The
statement that INDEXF doesn't know the directory is incorrect.
...

> %ANALDISK-W-LOSTHEADER, file (9443,4,0) MISSING_FILE.TXT;1
>         not found in a directory

It would be nice if analyze would print the back link, here. At least
this would make it obvious, whether all the files moved into SYSLOST
belonged to a single directory or to multiple ones.

> I think that the OP is trying to figure out a [SYSLOST] directory full of
> files.  Since the backlink is now that of the [SYSLOST] directory, that's
> not going to help.  The proper thing to do would first be ANALYZE/DISK to
> find the files not found in a directory.  Then collect the backlinks from
> the headers of these files BEFORE doing an ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR.  That way
> there is a way to create some relationship amongst the files collected by
> the /REPAIR.

It seems always wise to do an ANALYZE/DISK/NOREPAIR and save or
retrieve some data/information before "corrupting" the disk with /
REPAIR.