Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:03:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Brennan Bas Underwood <brennan AT mack DOT rt66 DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Exclusive access to drive
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On 31 May 1997, Brennan Bas Underwood wrote:

> I would assume this is because if you have files open and run chkdsk, it'll
> bomb your hd like mad when it assumes it has exclusive right to modify the
> naughty bits and goes ahead and goes at it. Then when you close your program
> and it writes out the buffered data... pakow. So they attempt to save you from
> yourself.

I suspect that, as usual, Microsoft tries to save me from myself a bit too
well, because the same considerations apply when I run CHKDSK from DOS
6.x.  However, the version from 6.x doesn't say a word to that effect, and
nothing bad really happens to my drive after running CHKDSK.