severity 417639 important thanks in my case situation is similar - took time to dig out on how to "commit" the changes but now they are not really committed since on subsequence runs -- the same errors -- so what good about this utility (thus raised severity)
$> dosfsck -r -w /dev/sdb1 dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN There are differences between boot sector and its backup. Differences: (offset:original/backup) 1:63/58, 90:00/0e, 91:80/1f, 92:70/be, 93:b5/77, 94:65/7c, 95:00/ac , 96:00/22, 97:00/c0, 98:00/74, 99:00/0b, 100:ff/56, 101:fa/b4, 102:eb/0e , 103:05/bb, 104:f6/07, 105:c2/00, 106:80/cd, 107:74/10, 108:05/5e ..... , 504:f7/00, 505:fe/00 1) Copy original to backup 2) Copy backup to original 3) No action ? 1 FATs differ but appear to be intact. Use which FAT ? 1) Use first FAT 2) Use second FAT ? 1 /boot/iso/.neurodebian-live_6.0.3_i386.iso.qA4V1K Contains a free cluster (490368). Assuming EOF. /boot/iso/.neurodebian-live_6.0.3_i386.iso.qA4V1K File size is 201850880 bytes, cluster chain length is 186978304 bytes. Truncating file to 186978304 bytes. /boot/iso/neurodebian-live_6.0.3_i386.iso File size is 750256128 bytes, cluster chain length is > 750256128 bytes. Truncating file to 750256128 bytes. Reclaimed 1767 unused clusters (7237632 bytes). Free cluster summary wrong (499143 vs. really 491142) 1) Correct 2) Don't correct ? 1 Perform changes ? (y/n) y /dev/sdb1: 904 files, 1570618/2061760 clusters $> dosfsck -r -w /dev/sdb1 dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN There are differences between boot sector and its backup. Differences: (offset:original/backup) 1:63/58, 90:00/0e, 91:80/1f, 92:70/be, 93:b5/77, 94:65/7c, 95:00/ac , 96:00/22, 97:00/c0, 98:00/74, 99:00/0b, 100:ff/56, 101:fa/b4, 102:eb/0e , 103:05/bb, 104:f6/07, 105:c2/00, 106:80/cd, 107:74/10, 108:05/5e , 109:f6/eb, 110:c2/f0, 111:70/32, 112:74/e4, 113:02/cd, 114:b2/16 , 115:80/cd, 116:ea/19, 117:79/eb, 118:7c/fe, 119:00/54, 120:00/68 , 121:31/69, 122:c0/73, 123:8e/20, 124:d8/69, 125:8e/73, 126:d0/20 .... -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org