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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?
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>> system. I'm not sure if such a tool could operate on devices
>> (instead of filesystem-based representations as "drive letters"),
>> but it actually _was_ a DOS-based "copy & convert" utility
>> for the PC. :-)
>
> MSDOS/PCDOS had -no- O/S functions to directly access actual disk
> devices.  The ONLY fuctionality provided to the user, by the "O/S"

can we finally stop this off topic thread?

it was about fsck on FAT32 filesystem UNDER FREEBSD (because it is in 
freebsd-questions).