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FSCK.CPM(1) User commands FSCK.CPM(1)

NAME

fsck.cpm - check a CP/M file system

SYNOPSIS

fsck.cpm [-f format] [-n] image

DESCRIPTION

fsck.cpm is used to check and repair a CP/M file system. After reading the directory, it makes two passes. The first pass checks extent fields for range and format violations (bad status, extent number, last record byte count, file name, extension, block number, record count, size of .COM files, time stamp format, invalid password characters, invalid time stamp mode). The second pass checks extent connectivity (multiple allocated blocks and duplicate directory entries).

fsck.cpm can not yet repair all errors.

OPTIONS

-f format
Use the given CP/M disk format instead of the default format.
-T libdsk-type
libdsk driver type, e.g. tele for Teledisk images or raw for raw images (requires building cpmtools with support for libdsk).
-n
Open the file system read-only and do not repair any errors.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, exit code 0 is returned.

ERRORS

Any errors are indicated by exit code 1.

FILES

/etc/cpmtools/diskdefs CP/M disk format definitions

ENVIRONMENT

CPMTOOLSFMT Default format

DIAGNOSTICS

image: used/total files (n.n% non-contiguos), used/total blocks
No inconsistencies could be found. The number of used files actually is the number of used extents. Since a file may use more than one extent, this may be greather than the actual number of files, but a correct measure would not reflect how many files could still be created at most. A file is considered fragmented, if sequential data blocks pointed to by the same extent do not have sequential block numbers. The number of used blocks includes the blocks used for system tracks and the directory.

AUTHORS

This program is copyright 1997–2012 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>. The Windows port is copyright 2000, 2001, 2011 John Elliott <jce@seasip.demon.co.uk>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

SEE ALSO

fsck(8), mkfs.cpm(1), cpm(5)
October 25, 2014 CP/M tools