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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Not a DOS disk
Message-ID: <2310@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 12:28:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2310
Posted: Thu Sep 10 12:28:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 09:19:15 EDT
References: <373@io.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <373@io.UUCP>, carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith) says:

> What I want to know is - Is Commodore going to release a fsck type utility
> for hard disks? They had better - I expect most A2000 customers will have
> hard disks, and none of the disk fixing programs I have seen are even smart
> enough to handle a simple case where a file is deleted, but the directory
> thinks it is still there. This is pretty basic. I'm surprised the validator
> doesn't handle stuff of this type, much less that there is no OS utility to
> do it.

File is deleted but directory still thinks its there?  Really?  How so?  As
far as I've ever been able to determine, the definition of a deleted file is
a file that's been removed from the hash table of its directory.  So if the
file still shows up in the directory, it hasn't been deleted.  If for some
reason its data blocks have been marked as "free" in the BAM, that could be
very unfortunate (though the validator would find this if it kicked in at
the time).  It sounds like you want the DOS to specifically tag a deleted 
block as being deleted instead of just being de-linked from it's parent.

> 			Carlos Smith
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