-a Automatically repair the file system. No user intervention is
necessary. Whenever there is more than one method to solve a
problem, the least destructive approach is used.
-A Use Atari variation of the MS-DOS filesystem. This is default if
dosfsck is run on an Atari, then this option turns off Atari
format. There are some minor differences in Atari format: Some
boot sector fields are interpreted slightly different, and the
special FAT entries for end-of-file and bad cluster can be dif-
ferent. Under MS-DOS 0xfff8 is used for EOF and Atari employs
0xffff by default, but both systems recognize all values from
0xfff8...0xffff as end-of-file. MS-DOS uses only 0xfff7 for bad
clusters, where on Atari values 0xfff0...0xfff7 are for this
purpose (but the standard value is still 0xfff7).
-d Drop the specified file. If more that one file with that name
exists, the first one is dropped.
-f Salvage unused cluster chains to files. By default, unused clus-
ters are added to the free disk space except in auto mode (-a).
-l List path names of files being processed.
-r Interactively repair the file system. The user is asked for
advice whenever there is more than one approach to fix an incon-
sistency. This is the default behaviour.
-t Mark unreadable clusters as bad.
-u Try to undelete the specified file. dosfsck tries to allocate a
chain of contiguous unallocated clusters beginning with the
start cluster of the undeleted file.
-v Verbose mode. Generates slightly more output.
-V Perform a verification pass. The file system check is repeated
after the first run. The second pass should never report any
fixable errors. It may take considerably longer than the first
pass, because the first pass may have generated long list of
modifications that have to be scanned for each disk read.
-w Write changes to disk immediately.
-y Same as -a (automatically repair filesystem) for compatibility
with other fsck tools.
If -a and -r are absent, the file system is only checked, but not
repaired.
