Messages in this thread |  | | | From | nicholas@binary9 ... | | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:01:30 -0400 (EDT) | | Subject | Re: msdos FS bug |
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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
# The MSDOS filesystem isn't a sensible structure that can be verified easily. # There is no superblock magic number, no dirty flag, no sanity checking.
Are you sure about this? (The no dirty flag). My Win95/98 knows when I turn off the computer without shutting it down first and does a scandisk when it comes up.
Granted, it could just be putting a "c:\imclean" file upon shutdown ...
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