[ILUG] Re: fsck to DOS
John P . Looney
valen at tuatha.org
Thu Oct 28 13:21:59 IST 1999
On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 01:20:27PM +0100, John P . Looney mentioned:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:34:00PM +0700, Robby mentioned:
> > is it save to fsck to DOS/Win partition from Linux?
> Yes. In general, it's safer :)
> However, bare in mind that if you have a number of partitions in your
> extended partition, DOS will only see the ones upto the first non-dos
> partition.
Brainfart. Thought you said fdisk. There is no fsck for an MSDOS partition
for Linux. You're looking for something like scandisk.exe
Kate
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