Re: Another bug with HFS!

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <5jdad5$q3n$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
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 not a problem with the HFS FST.  It exists with all DOSes on all
machines. Anytime a file write is interrupted by a crash, power failure,
or reset, it leaves a partial file and may or may not have a valid
directory entry or allocation table entry.  I have even had such events
screw up a ProDOS directory so that otherwise good files cannot be deleted
(they can be copied elsewhere intact), and if you do copy everything and
try to delete the bad directory, the system gives you errors and won't do
anything to it.  ProSEL will not fix it!

Your solution above is the *only* cure!

John

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