RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Andreas Schwab
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 3:07 PM
> To: reschke@muenster.de
> Cc: Michael Schwingen; Jo Even Skarstein; MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> "Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:
>
> |> > From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de]
> |> > Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 12:16 PM
> |> > To: reschke@muenster.de
> |> > Cc: Michael Schwingen; Jo Even Skarstein; MiNT List
> |> > Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
> |> >
> |> >
> |> > "Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:
> |> >
> |> > |> This can easily be avoided by Dlock)ing the drive first --
> |> > something you
> |> > |> have to do anyway...
> |> >
> |> > Does Dlock the *entire* drive?  AFAIK it doesn't, only the partition.
> |>
> |> But that's what you want for fsck, correct???
>
> No, you want to make sure that only one fsck runs on the *entire* drive.

?? I don't understand... Do you want to tell me that fsck access the drive
outside a particular partition? Like the root sector of the disk????