I'm 99% sure that the problem is that after renaming to FSCK9999.REN fsck.vfat tries to rename a file to FSCK10000.REN. This is not a legal 8+3 dos file name (it's 9+3, not 8+3). This without checking the code. I therefore am worried that your questions are on the wrong track. I'll try and answer anyway:
I'll try and answer but don't have a lot of good answers for several reasons: The disk was formatted as vfat, I think that was done from a mac (my brothers disk, not mine, I'm just tech-support :-) The disk in question was an external USB storage, one partition, 250GB. The disk was defect so I sent it in and got my money back. Don't have it anymore, so I can't give exact details, this from memory: * Was a specific file, or group of files, involved? Yes, a collection of MP3s * What names did affected files have? Typical mp3 file names - Directories with artist, subdirs for album, varying track file names. * Were they all in the same directory, what was the name of that directory? No, lots of directories. * How big was the partition that contained the files? 250GB (whole disk) * Which language was the file system? Not sure. Not sure what you mean either? Does vfat support UTF-8? The computers using the disk were using either US english (default) or norwegian (nb_NO.UTF-8 or nb_NO.iso88591, but I'm guessing here) * Was the file of a particular size? Typical mp3 file sizes, 2-10MB I guess. * Was the file a Windows .lnk file? Probably not, most of them definitely not. It's unlikely that there were any such files, but I'm not 100% sure. * What other symptoms did you notice? Nothing special. -- fsck.vfat hangs after renaming to FSCK9999.REN https://launchpad.net/bugs/68153 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
