On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:11:13 UTC, "ivan" <
ivanjt@free.fr> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:05:08 UTC, "Allan" <allan2@warpspeed.dyndns.dk>
wrote:
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 14:44:41 UTC, "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> wrote:
What's the meaning of, for example, "/AUTOCHECK:G*"?
G* does not make a lot of sense.
The letters after AUTOCHECK: are the driveletters(partitions), that you want autochecked during boot.
* means all (hpfs) partitions, which have a driveletter assigned.
The character "*" is not documented in eCS 1.2's "HELP HPFS.IFS". With Warp 4 this parameter used to be "/AUTOCHECK:CDEFG".
Most likely because you have created those 5 partitions.
Allan, are you sure of that?
I know the * with JFS means check all JFS partitions at boot but for
some reason I have always thought that with HPFS it meant only check a
drive if the dirty flag was set and the letter meant always check that
drive (I think I got that info from one of the readme files with one
of the fixpacks).
I'm afraid you got that wrong. * or any drive letter means check the
drive, if it is dirty. Neither HPFS or JFS does eny check on a clean
drive, but unfortunately JFS still displays something for clean drives
(which is a bug).
If you want to _force_ running checkdsk on a drive during boot, you
need to add a + sign in front of the specific driveletter,
ex /AUTOCHECK:CD+EFG
will force chkdsk on drive E and check if dirty on the others.
+* will force chkdsk on all drives - don't do that. It can take a long
time, and if you have many or large partitions, the system may run out of memory
during this - and can not boot !
Basicly, the bahaviour is the same on HPFS and JFS.
--
Allan.
It is better to close your mouth, and look like a fool,
than to open it, and remove all doubt.
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