Hi BEN.

15-Jun-04 09:55:25, BEN RITCHEY wrote to JASEN BETTS

 BR> After testing a new version of NDD on C:, and noticing that it
 BR> "fixed" the directory structure (NDD report showed invalid LFNs
 BR> for several sub-dirs that I only write to under Linux). Subsequent
 BR> testing showed the NDD fix only worked right after a Defrag when
 BR> all LFN's were orphaned (a single Linux job would void this
 BR> ability to fix using NDD).

 BR> So > I figured the best thing would be an automatic NDD right
 BR> after my weekly defrag , but it's not so automatic. :(

 BR> Due to hardware limitations, I am using Mandrake-Linux v7.1
 BR> (kernel 2.2x). It employs a standard mount for DOS partitions as
 BR> vfat fs (I will eventually HAVE to use mtools once I have DOSEmu
 BR> running to my satisfaction) based on fstab.

if lfns are causing you problems mount it as type dos instead of vfat.
(and then linux won't read or write lfns)

dosemu will run on mounted drives by using lredir (doesn't work with
freedos) it's actually capable of bootsing ms-dos off a linux partition
(or off a mounted dos hard disk) even though it can't see the boot sector.
(this feature may be experimental, I've not seen it in the documentation,
I just put /mnt/dos in there instead of /dev/hda1 and it worked!)

 -=> Bye <=-

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