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dosfsck, version 1
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WARNING: This is ALPHA test software. Use at your own risk.
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dosfsck is the Linux equivalent of PC/MS-DOS' CHKDSK. It checks the
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consistency of PC/MS-DOS file systems and optionally tries to repair
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them. The tests dosfsck performs are described in the man page.
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dosfsck needs header files from dosfs.9 (or later) to compile.
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Before using dosfsck to repair a file system that contains data of any
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value, you should verify that dosfsck is able to correct all reported
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errors. (Except fatal errors and those reported as unfixable, of
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course.) In order to do this, run it with the -V option, e.g.
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dosfsck -V /dev/sda1 (automatic check)
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or dosfsck -V -r /dev/sda1 (interactive check and repair)
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dosfsck will perform two passes: in the first pass, inconsistencies are
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detected and a list of changes to correct the problems is generated. In
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the second pass, those changes are applied whenever dosfsck reads data
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from disk. Hence no fixable errors should be reported in the second
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pass if the first pass was successful.
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Please notify the author if fixable errors are reported in the second
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pass.
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After verifying that dosfsck appears to be able to perform the desired
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operations, either confirm that you want the changes to be performed
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(if dosfsck was started with -r) or re-run dosfsck with the -a option
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(if it was started without -r).
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Please send bug reports, comments, flames, etc. to
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almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch or almesber@bernina.ethz.ch
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- Werner
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FAT32 and LFN support
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I've finally implemented some of the new features of MS-DOS
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filesystems: FAT32 and long filenames.
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FAT32 is automatically detected and of course the different FAT
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structure is handled. (Internally many changes were needed, so 32 bit
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variables for all cluster numbers and 64 bit vars for offsets inside
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the filesystem.) New checks for FAT32 are most notably on the backup
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boot sector and the new info sector. Also the possibility that the
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root directory resides in a cluster chain (instead of in a static
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area) on FAT32 is handled.
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dosfscheck also knows about VFAT long filenames now. It parses those
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names and uses them in listings etc. when available. There are also
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some checks on the (cruel) structure of how LFNs are stored and some
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attempts to fix problems.
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- Roman <roman@hodek.net>
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BTW, version 2 isn't ALPHA anymore :-)
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