I remember the before-time, when the GNU lived only in Boston.  When beasts like &#x27;adb&#x27; and &#x27;fsdb&#x27; roamed the earth, and &#x27;fsck&#x27; was the wimpy stuff of childrens taunts.  When I controlled my horror and revulsion and used them to recover the broken VAX by manually rebuilding inode lists and finding the lost fragments in the dark.<p>Hard tools for hard admins; the Gods of BSD, McKusick and Joy and the rest, were and are wise.  We live in more refined times....