On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Garmin GPS with a 32GB SD card. > If I attach my device to the USB port, a directory listing looks totally > scrambled. > A listing of the smaller (2GB) 'internal' storage device is just fine. > And I am sure the listing of the bigger SD card has been fine earlier > when less storage was used. > > The funny thing, looking at the same SD card from Windows7 (running in > VirtualBox) > gives a perfect listing (about 28 GB are used). > > What am I missing? > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut.
My first guess is FAT corruption (maybe windows reads second copy of FAT?). Maybe try to do chkdsk from windows, or make a backup first from there anyway. :) My second guess is character encoding differences, but usually it would not be so extreme. I mount vfat with options codepage=437,iocharset=utf8 and it seems to usually give me proper results for "international" filenames (although mount warns me every time that this is unwise).
