Custom Query (69 matches)

When checking FAT32 media (0.10alpha7, 10/20/2016 UFAT32), and corrections must be written to disk, the message breaks before prompting for input:

[c:\]chkdsk n: /f
The current hard disk drive is: N:
The type of file system for the disk is FAT32.
The FAT32 file system program has been started.
FAT32: Unicode translate table for CP 850 loaded.
(UFAT32.DLL version 0.10a7 compiled on Oct 18 2016)
The volume label is FAT32.
The Volume Serial Number is 150A-3733.
CHKDSK is checking fats :Ok.
CHKDSK is checking files and directories...
CHKDSK is searching for lost data.
CHKDSK has searched   4% of the disk.
SYS0562: The system detected lost data on disk N:.
CHKDSK has searched 100% of the disk.

63 lost clusters found in 1 chains.
These clusters and chains will be erased unless you convert

The screen stops at this line, apparently waiting for input. Pressing Ctrl-C yields us the rest of the story:

^C
External process cancelled by a Ctrl+Break or another process
them to files.  Do you want to convert them to files(Y/N)?

Likewise, simply pressing "Y" will complete the pass (but one must know that this is the prompt).

After running CHKDSK and responding "Y" to write changes, I am left with the following in the root of my FAT32 volume:

11-13-76  13:49          32,256      0  FILE0000.CHK

76 should be 16.

It would be consistent with OS/2's behavior for HPFS and JFS, at least, to write a log of chkdsk activity (even if only plain text, and without the need for a special log formatter) to the root of the checked media.