'od' cant dump directory contants

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

> Op 18-07-10 11:35, Ariful Hossain schreef:
> > od supposed to dump directory contents as well as files. but in my
> > ubuntu box it cant do that.  It gives only a read error msg.  Is
> > it a problem with gnu od or od is implemented differently from
> > original unix od?
>
> What is the exact command that you used? Including all parameters?

  take my advice for what it's worth but, as a long-time linux trainer
(and, yes, i'm available :-), i used to get students in intro classes
to do just that -- hexdump or od directories themselves to see the
structure of directory entries, including i-numbers.

  at some point, that didn't work anymore because the way directories
were implemented changed.  so my assumption these days is that, no,
you can't dump directories anymore.  but i'm willing to be corrected.

rday

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