Re: Another bug with HFS!

[NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Alexander Siegfried (ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:
: Hi folks!

: The Problem:
: When you save a file onto a HFS partition, and the system
: crashes (for whatever reason) or you press reset, the file
: has not been saved properly (of course). While the data
: already occupies disk space, there is no file entry and so
: there is no way to get back the wasted capacity.

: The solution:
: Transfer all data to another disk, then erase or format the
: old disk and move the data back on.

: Is there a bug fix for this problem?

This is just a standard error which occurs with the combination
of disk access and system crashes.  The same corruption occurs
on ProDOS disks.  However, since there are ProDOS volume disk
checkers, editors, and repairers, you can correct this problem
without a complete reformat.

The "bug fix" would be to write a disk correction utility which
can manage HFS partitions for the IIgs (they already exist for
the Mac!).

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