[ros-dev] Command line

Thomas Weidenmueller w3seek at reactos.com
Mon Sep 4 16:17:39 CEST 2006


> "Neither UNTFS.DLL nor UFAT.DLL call file system drivers to take any
part in a format or chkdsk operation - they directly read and write raw
clusters on the drive."

That's why you have to unmount the drive when ie. formatting or chkdsk'ing
it. Defragmentation however can be done whithout unmounting, because the
fs driver handles this job. The IOCTLs are documented in the platform sdk,
defragmentation really doesn't work using fmifs/ufat/untfs/u...

- Thomas





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