Re: HFS partitions under Sys 6.0.1

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Mark Percival" <markREMOVE@syndicomm.com> wrote in message sm6bk0trptbmasq2jr4dnochnl9vvs0f93@4ax.com">news:sm6bk0trptbmasq2jr4dnochnl9vvs0f93@4ax.com...
: On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, John L  wrote:
: 
: >I recently booted one of my IIgs machines and noticed that two of the
: >HFS partitions I created on the Focus hard drive are now corrupted.
: >Is it possible to repair these HFS partitions from within System 6 ?
: 
: John,
: 
: Sadly the answer is no.  Over the years since System 6.0 has been
: released, no one has managed to write an HSF repair utility.  A
: corrupt HSF partition on a Focus drive has happened to me and the only
: recourse I had was to copy all the files to another partition or hard
: drive, format the corrupted partition and then copy the files back.
: Make sure though that before to reformat the partition that you have
: applied the HSF patch available from most Apple II public archives.
: It doesn't fix all of the problems with the HFS.FST but it helps
: considerably.
: 
: http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/System/FSTs/PATCHHFS.SHK

Best thing to do is, once the HFS.FST is patched, 
write it back to your System 6.0 Installation disks 
and then you will no longer need the patch.  :o) 

Apple II Forever, and Apple II Together, 
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-) 
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