[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dosfsck -v -n /dev/hda3 dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem Boot sector contents: System ID "MSWIN4.1" Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk) 512 bytes per logical sector 16384 bytes per cluster 32 reserved sectors First FAT starts at byte 16384 (sector 32) 2 FATs, 32 bit entries 6426624 bytes per FAT (= 12552 sectors) Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size) Data area starts at byte 12869632 (sector 25136) 1606216 data clusters (26316242944 bytes) 63 sectors/track, 255 heads 104872320 hidden sectors 51424065 sectors total /CONQUEROR_OF_SHAMBALLA.I00 File size is 0 bytes, cluster chain length is > 0 bytes. Truncating file to 0 bytes.
And then it hangs taking up 100% of the CPU. So it did indeed corrupt that file by truncating it! You really shouldn't be running fsck on non-native Linux partitions! -- vfat filesystems checked by fsck https://launchpad.net/bugs/48806 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs