On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 06:28:19PM +0200, Alexey Vatchenko wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Kenneth R Westerback > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This seems to be the difference between fsck_msdos and fsck_ffs that lets > > fsck_msdos incorrectly use the block device. > > > > This still works on my 512-byte sector msdos fs and uses the raw > > device. I think it will make your fsck/fsck_msdos behaviour consistant. > > > > Then we can figure out if fsck_msdos can ever work with devices of sector > > sizes other than 512 bytes. > > > > Index: main.c > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/fsck_msdos/main.c,v > > retrieving revision 1.17 > > diff -u -p -r1.17 main.c > > --- main.c ? ? ?12 Aug 2010 15:26:34 -0000 ? ? ?1.17 > > +++ main.c ? ? ?22 Feb 2012 14:42:08 -0000 > > @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) > > > > ? ? ? ?while (argc-- > 0) { > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?setcdevname(*argv, NULL, preen); > > - ? ? ? ? ? ? ? erg = checkfilesys(*argv++); > > + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? erg = checkfilesys(blockcheck(*argv++)); > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?if (erg > ret) > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?ret = erg; > > ? ? ? ?} > > $ sudo ./fsck_msdos /dev/rsd6j > ** /dev/rsd6j > could not read boot block (Invalid argument)$
But what does './fsck_msdos /dev/sd6j' do? .... Ken
