Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:47:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? Message-ID: <201207222047.q6MKlrjt025975@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <500C429A.2010702@cran.org.uk>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jul 22 13:15:00 2012 > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:12:42 +0100 > From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> > To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> > Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, > Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> > Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? > > On 22/07/2012 17:14, Polytropon wrote: > > Furthermore, in your example using Cygnwin's dd _on_ the disk > > Cygnwin is currently running from, and the "Windows" it runs > > on too, doesn't seem like a very good idea. I assume it will > > result in a bluescreen soon and a _partially_ erased disk. > > Sorry, I forgot the say that in this example Windows is booted from > \\.\PhysicalDrive1 :) Which assumes you _have_ \\.\PhysicalDrive1, and have a bootable O/S on it, *and* know how to make the machine boot from the 'other disk' *AND* know the 'magic incantation' to invoke the executable to erase the disk in -that- environmnt. Care to guess what percentnage of Windows users fits that criteria? I'm petty sure, albeit without any 'ahrd facts', that it starts with a decimal point, and several zeroes. <wry grin>
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