From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 07:04:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8655216A4DB for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6036943F93 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.24.175]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030820140416.VBFX1299.out001.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:04:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3F437FCF.9060409@mac.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:03:59 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: D Velez References: <3F436524.6050405@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <3F436524.6050405@verizon.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [68.237.24.175] at Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:04:15 -0500 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About fsck and dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:04:21 -0000 D Velez wrote: > Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series i386 > > Is it safe to use fsck and dump on windows partions? No. You should use native Windows tools like chkdsk/scandisk for repair, and dump is almost certainly too UFS-specific to work. You probably could use tar instead of dump, however. -- -Chuck