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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!utkcs2!ornl!rm3
- From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
- Subject: Re: Can't CHKDSK /F!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.132457.29203@ornl.gov>
- Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- References: <92186.130944U28661@uicvm.uic.edu> <1616@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:24:57 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1616@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl writes:
- >In article <92186.130944U28661@uicvm.uic.edu>, U28661@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
- >=>
- >=> For some reason, I can no longer use the /F paramater when running
- >=> CHKDSK. Instead, I get a SYS0108 message: The disk is in use or locked
- >=> by another process. This problem shouldn't occur when I boot from
- >=> OS/2's Installation Disk and Disk 1. Any ideas?
- >
- >Only Low life primitive OS'es let users mess with their filesystems when
- >they are in use. And chkdsk in one shure way to do lowlevel messing
- >with a disk.
- >
- >If you booted of a floppy then nothing is using the hard disk, unless
- >you go like :
- > c:
- > cd os2\
- >
- >Or of course when you boot from harddisk. Then every file used comes
- >from the disk you're trying to CHKDSK.
- >
- >As long as you boot of a floppy, and access only files on the floppy
- >the harddisk in not used and thus free for maintenance
- >
- >So the moral of the story is that one can only use CHDSK on a disk
- >which is not in use (our in UNIX terms: mounted)
- >
- That is unless a "minor" change has been made to config.sys on the boot floppy
- that just "happens" to use the harddrive. :-)
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