Directory Editor
Jeff Beadles
jeff at quark.WV.TEK.COM
Thu Jun 8 01:14:08 AEST 1989
In article <603 at stanton.UUCP> donegan at stanton.UUCP ( Owner) writes:
>I'm sorry if this has been covered before, but is there source code available
>which would allow me(root) to edit a directory file directly?
Nope. Only the kernel can write to a directory. Even allmighty root can't
do that. However, if you're really bored, I guess that you could go into
the raw filesystem, search for the block on-disk, and tweek it there. :-) :-)
(Don't do this at home kids...)
-Jeff
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