You must not perform fsck on a drive's mount-point but on it's file- system. When the flashdrive is mounted, you can see both the mount-point and the file-system. To display these, issue the command "mount | grep vfat"
On my system, the result of "mount| grep vfat" is: /dev/sdg1 on /media/Kingston4GB type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower,iocharset=iso8859-1) Now you can unmount the drive with the "umount <mount-point> command, in my case: "umount /media/Kingston4GB" Now you can check the drive with the command "fsck -fv -C0 <file-system>", in my case "fsck -fv -C0 /dev/sdg1" If this is not clear enough, please post the output from the "mount" command to the list and we'll take it from there. HTH, Hendrik Richard Carter wrote: > Thanks for the tip. The flashdrive is vfat, which seems appropriate because > I often transfer file to and from machines running Windows XP. > > I couldn't make fsck.vfat -r -t -V /dev/<usb device> work because I couldn't > figure out which of the 5 usbdev*.* in /dev was the one to check. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
