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From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
Subject: Re: UNIX sector/file location
Message-ID: <CILw4x.E6F@pluto.rain.com>
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc
Organization: Surely you jest
References: <Dec23.204443.94504@yuma.acns.colostate.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1993 19:43:45 GMT
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In article <Dec23.204443.94504@yuma.acns.colostate.edu>
zs470513@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Zane Shults) writes:
> I have ISC UNIX SysV/386 3.2 v3.0.1 running on a Compaq. Given an absolute
> sector number, how do I find what file uses it?

In SunOS you can use icheck(8) to get the inode number, then find(1) or
ncheck(8) to get the file name.  These utilities go back at least as far
as 6th edition Unix, so I would expect them to be available in ISC also.