From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 5 14:12:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA10227 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 14:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10222 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 14:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA02892; Sun, 5 May 1996 14:11:42 -0700 (PDT) To: Robert Nordier cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 May 1996 15:35:17 +0200." <199605051335.PAA00347@eac.iafrica.com> Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 14:11:41 -0700 Message-ID: <2890.831330701@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A preen option is a Good Thing. 'fsck' itself has code to parse > /etc/fstab, skipping non-ufs filesystems. One solution would be > to incorporate equivalent code in 'dosfsck'. Possibly a more The one thing that scares me about this whole scenario is having DOS filesystems suddenly get checked when they weren't even looked at before, perhaps then to run into a bug which causes DOSFS corruption and some very unhappy user(s) who never even expected FreeBSD to take such liberties with their DOS partitions. I think it should still be an option to enable this particular behavior! :-) Jordan