Re: directory changed to a file

[Marco Gerards]

Randy Solomonson <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello-
> 
> A directory that I have was strangely changed into a file.  Is there a
> way to change it back to a directory?  I think cvs was doing it.  It's
> very odd.

This is a bug of your filesystem driver (Linux I assume?) and has
nothing to do with coreutils.  You can fix this if you have some time
to study how a directory is stored on a fat filesystem and know how to
work with a hex editor.

Just locate the directory name on your partition and change the type
of the file to directory (If this is the problem).

I suggest you do this before running fsck.  Of course you should make
a backup before doing this and I'm not responsible for any damage if
this doesn't work.
 
--
Marco