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On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 10:09 am, Ben Leslie wrote:

> Wouldn't that require manually writing to the directory file? I thought
> sane Unices stopped you from doing this years ago.

No, I believe that raw access to the disk device is still available (and 
required!).

How else would fsck & mkfs work ? :-)

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