re: dcheck

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From: brian (b.c.) white
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 11:42

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>Under OSK, when I run dcheck on my hard drive, I get several (about 6
>screen-fulls) of messages like "Sector 004001 (byte=0800 bit=1) not in
>file structure."  (differing byte, sector, and bit values, of course.)
>Still, after dcheck is done, it says, "file structure is intact."  What
>do all those "not in file structure" messages mean if the file structure
>is in tact?  Should I be worried?

Sounds like a file got it's directory entry removed without the space
being deallocated.  DCheck has an option that will fix this.  Note,
however, that bad sectors are mapped out by format in this way and
DCheck will happily put them back in service.

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