On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:39:33AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Greg,
> In a dual boot with Windows-XP, after installing
> Norton's Ghost under XP, it adjusted the boot sector.
> Now when booting Linux, the discrepancy between this
> and the backup is reported, accompanied with the
> message:
>
> "I'm not automatically fixing this"
This appears to be a message from fsck.dos or fsck.vfat, although in my
copy (RH7.3) the text is slightly different.
On boot, each filesystem listed in /etc/fstab with the sixth field
non-zero is checked at boot time. I'd guess that your XP partition is
there and is being checked.
> How do I update the backup so as to quash this message?
Try unmounting the filesystem (if it's mounted) and running fsck.vfat
manually. It's not mentioned in the man page, but strings in the
binary indicate that you have the option when running interactively of
fixing this:
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
Differences: (offset:original/backup)
1) Copy original to backup
2) Copy backup to original
3) No action
Not automatically fixing this.
Cheers,
John
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