On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Kenneth R Westerback
<kwesterb...@rogers.com> 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)$
