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SpartaDOS X Reference Manual |
The Command Processor — Commands |
| CHKDSK Command |
| Purpose | Show volume, free/total disk space, and sector size of the selected drive (or diskette). |
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| Syntax | CHKDSK [d:] |
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| Type | Internal |
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| Related | FORMAT,
MEM, VER |
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| Remarks | The CHKDSK command is used to quickly see how much space is available on a drive and the sector size (this information is not available by doing a DIRectory). Note that the volume name of all Atari DOS 2 style diskettes will appear as
"AtariDOS".
You will notice that the disk write-lock status is omitted — this feature is no longer supported. We found this to be more of a hassle than it was worth, and it did not protect you from formatting the diskette. (The write-lock feature of the Multi I/O still works and is totally independent — it is a far more secure write-lock.) The following is a sample output of the CHKDSK command.
The two numbers following the volume name are used for disk change detection in cases where volume names are the same on both diskettes. The first is a random number generated when the disk was formatted. The second is a sequence number which is incremented each time a file on the disk is opened for write. |
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