From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 5 02:52:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA06846 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 02:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA06840 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 02:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA11230; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:51:37 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA22148; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:51:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA27697; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:48:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605050948.LAA27697@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: dosfsck anyone? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 11:48:26 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605031911.VAA00877@eac.iafrica.com> from Robert Nordier at "May 3, 96 09:11:53 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Nordier wrote: > I'm currently in the process of finishing off a BSD implementation > of 'dosfsck', an 'fsck'-style utility for checking and repairing > DOS FAT (and later VFAT) filesystems. > (Example 1) > > Directory '/junk' is cross-linked on cluster 4. Truncate [yn]? y > . . . . . > Warning: directory '/keep' was also cross-linked on cluster 4. I think i would go with this. Anyway, _any_ decent dosfsck might be a nice deal. What about making `fsck' generic in the same way as `mount' is, btw? This way, an `fsck -p' would also be able to call fsck_msdos if there's a file system of type msdos in /etc/fstab. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)