Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:33:26 +1200 (NZST) From: Eric Gillespie To: Pavel Ozerski cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: The bug in CHKDSK? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Pavel Ozerski wrote: ::Hello all, :: ::I found that CHKDSK in DR-DOS 7.02 seems to be buggy. ::I tried to repair errors on my HD using CHKDSK /F and got ::the strange message: "contains an invalid cluster.contains an invalid cluster.contains ::an invalid cluster... over and over again repeated - instead the prompt ::to save changes. Afterthem it corrected errors without prompt. ::A question to Caldera: is this bug (if it exists) a simple ::erratum or it is a result of the attempt to adapt this utility to long ::file names (if this attempt was really?)? I have noticed this effect under OpenDOS 7.01 with long filenames in the root directory - what CHKDSK does (at least for 7.01) is read each directory entry and try to follow the FAT chain for that entry - of course if the entry is a LFN mathing one of the shorter names, it makes CHKDSK go NATO and it goes looking for cluster number 445276622195 in the FAT or something like that 8-) - it then can't find it, so it says () contains an invalid cluster entry (but forgets to put a CR after the message) so if you have more than one LFN in the directory, you get the strange effect you mentioned. I have abandoned the use of LFN for the moment (I'm having too much fun with Linux now...) but would like to know if DR get this bug fixed as I would like LFN working properly. Anyway, that's all from me - let me know if this message gets through? My mailer has just been fixed, and this is the test message for the fixes 8-) Bye Cheeers from the Viking, Running Linux and Opendos in Christchurch.