On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:34:40AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > $ df /media/usb-key > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdd1 499440 303916 195524 61% /media/usb-key > > I agree that it seems to be file system corruption, but dosfsck didn't > help. On unmounted device: > > # dosfsck /dev/sdd > dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN > Logical sector size is zero.
Again note that you used /dev/sdd not /dev/sdd1 > > > Use mkdosfs. Unless you assigned a drive letter to your flash drive, > > mformat is unlikely to work. > > I tried mkdosfs on an unmounted device: > > # mkdosfs -I /dev/sdd > mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005): > Ditto > when I mounted it, the files remain. Hoever, for some reason my xterm > displays them in green, while files are normally displayed in > black. I can add and then delete a test file on the device, which also > shows up green. You won't be able to remove files from /dev/hdd1 by doing things to /dev/hdd. You _will_ be able to corrupt the file system but it is FAT so it could show up as an inability to remove files. Try: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd this should zero the whole drive then use cfdisk and create /dev/hdd1 with the whole space. Then use mkdosfs on /dev/hdd1 not /dev/hdd. Then mount /dev/hdd1 and see what's there. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
