win95 partition on linux

gdillard · 12-11-2002, 10:28 PM

I have a file server running Red hat 7.2 with a windows 95 partition on it. I have a DOS POS program on that partition networked to windows desktops. I have occasional file corruption in need of scandisk. My question is how do I run scandisk or equivalent on that disk or partition?

rootboy · 12-12-2002, 03:19 AM

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Originally posted by gdillard
I have a file server running Red hat 7.2 with a windows 95 partition on it. I have a DOS POS program on that partition networked to windows desktops. I have occasional file corruption in need of scandisk. My question is how do I run scandisk or equivalent on that disk or partition?

Be forewarned that this might not be a brilliant idea:

But hereya go: http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/fsck.vfat.8.html

John

Thymox · 12-12-2002, 09:10 AM

RedHat 7.2 should be able to autodetect which filesystem is on the partition in question, so you could try just unmounting the partition and then fsck /dev/hd?? where hd?? is the partition number... obviously if this is a scsi disk, then you would want fsck /dev/sd?? instead.

HTH