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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SCO Unix; possible to resize partitions? Post 302116514 by jgt on Friday 4th of May 2007 03:55:55 PM
Old 05-04-2007
Rebuild

There are several ways to copy protect software in unix.
One is to use a file that contains the inode number of that file, so that when the entire product is copied to another machine the probability of that file having the same inode number is miniscule.
Another is to use a sparse file. This is a file purposely fragmented (to use Microsoft words) when it is created. If this file is copied to another location, the 'gap' disappears and the file becomes contiguous.

However, after re-reading your original post, I think that copy protection is probably not the case, but rather that because you ran out of disk space, the data files are out of sync.
What I mean by that is Pro5 uses ISAM files that are made up of a data file, and a separate index file (eg CUST.DAT and CUST.IDX). There should be a utility that will allow you to rebuild corrupted databases, so that, in the example above, CUST.IDX is forced to reflect the data that is found in CUST.DAT
Sorry to sound so vague about the rebuild, but I haven't used this software for at least 5 years, and we just moved, and and the documentation is somewhere deep in a 48 foot trailer.

Jack
 

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xfs_ncheck(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     xfs_ncheck(8)

NAME
xfs_ncheck - generate pathnames from i-numbers for XFS SYNOPSIS
xfs_ncheck [ -i ino ] ... [ -f ] [ -s ] [ -l logdev ] device DESCRIPTION
xfs_ncheck with no -i arguments generates an inode number and pathname list of all files on the given filesystem. Names of directory files are followed by /.. The output is not sorted in any particular order. The filesystem to be examined is specified by the device argument, which should be the disk or volume device for the filesystem. Filesystems stored in files can also be checked, using the -f flag. OPTIONS
-f Specifies that the filesystem image to be processed is stored in a regular file at device (see the mkfs.xfs -d file option). This might happen if an image copy of a filesystem has been made into an ordinary file. -l logdev Specifies the device where the filesystem's external log resides. Only for those filesystems which use an external log. See the mkfs.xfs -l option, and refer to xfs(5) for a detailed description of the XFS log. -s Limits the report to special files and files with setuserid mode. This option may be used to detect violations of security pol- icy. -i ino Limits the report to only those files whose inode numbers follow. May be given multiple times to select multiple inode numbers. If the filesystem is seriously corrupted, or very busy and looks like it is corrupt, a message of the form that would be generated by xfs_check(8) may appear. xfs_ncheck is only useful with XFS filesystems. SEE ALSO
mkfs.xfs(8), xfs_check(8), xfs(5). xfs_ncheck(8)
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