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Re: directory changed to a file
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: directory changed to a file |
Date: |
18 Nov 2003 21:46:36 +0100 |
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Randy Solomonson <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello-
>
> A directory that I have was strangely changed into a file. Is there a
> way to change it back to a directory? I think cvs was doing it. It's
> very odd.
This is a bug of your filesystem driver (Linux I assume?) and has
nothing to do with coreutils. You can fix this if you have some time
to study how a directory is stored on a fat filesystem and know how to
work with a hex editor.
Just locate the directory name on your partition and change the type
of the file to directory (If this is the problem).
I suggest you do this before running fsck. Of course you should make
a backup before doing this and I'm not responsible for any damage if
this doesn't work.
--
Marco