Hi Hendrik, Many thanks for your help. I followed your suggestion pretty closely. The command redcube:~# fsck -fv -CO /dev/sda1 didn't work: fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) dosfsck 3.0.1 (23 Nov 2008) fsck.vfat: invalid option -- O
so I used the command suggested by Gustin above: redcube:~# fsck.vfat -r -t -V /dev/sda1 which revealed some problems. I was able to use fsck to correct these and now things seem to work fine. Robin On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Hendrik Schaink <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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