Hi all, please update your dosfsck to www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/dosdosfsck-2.11c.zip
which now has progress in for for the -t option which can be enabled by the -v option. If you use -t without -v, is shows a hint "use -v" :-). Background: The -t option of dosfsck takes ages, as it is a full surface scan. Even worse, the scan works by FIRST test- reading all files and directories (so you get different types of checks for file X, then same checks for the next file, etc) and THEN test-reading all unused clusters in linear order. So no nice "read large chunks in block mode" or anything -> slow. Dosfsck already had a bit of progress info during "checking files and directories" (printed a "." every N files). Together with the new progress info (prints "N MB done" style text), even people who have the bad habit of using -t will no longer think that dosfsck got stuck. It only takes long with -t ;-). The full changelog entry is: version 2.11.dos3 (8/2007) - check.c, fat.c: Added messages about -t option being slow (effectively a full surface scan) and added progress info in -t -v mode for that, printing "N MB done" after each MB of scanned free space. Used space is already covered by the "print a dot each N files" progress info, which uses 10 times more dots now if -t mode is on :-). - check.c, fat.c: Set timestamp for undeleted or un-lost files to a non zero value (1.1.2007) and set un-lost to current date/time if in DOS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
