Comment 2 for bug 27897

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Andreas Eriksson (andreas-tpwch) wrote : Re: Weird name when using usb disk with dapper

I tried running fsck.vfat on it, here is the output:

root@laptop:andreas# fsck.vfat -y -v /dev/sda1
dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
Differences: (offset:original/backup)
  71:20/00, 72:20/00, 73:20/00, 74:20/00, 75:20/00, 76:20/00, 77:20/00
  , 78:20/00, 79:20/00, 80:20/00, 81:20/00
  Not automatically fixing this.
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSWIN4.1"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     32768 bytes per cluster
        36 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 18432 (sector 36)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   4883456 bytes per FAT (= 9538 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 9785344 (sector 19112)
   1220640 data clusters (39997931520 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 255 heads
        63 hidden sectors
  78140097 sectors total
Reclaiming unconnected clusters.
Checking free cluster summary.
/dev/sda1: 16646 files, 713986/1220640 clusters

Since it said 'not automatically fixing this' I ran it in non-auto mode:

root@laptop:andreas# fsck.vfat /dev/sda1
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
Differences: (offset:original/backup)
  71:20/00, 72:20/00, 73:20/00, 74:20/00, 75:20/00, 76:20/00, 77:20/00
  , 78:20/00, 79:20/00, 80:20/00, 81:20/00
1) Copy original to backup
2) Copy backup to original
3) No action
? 2
Leaving file system unchanged.
/dev/sda1: 16646 files, 713986/1220640 clusters

I did 2 since if anything changed on the disk it would be best to restore the
backup since I haven't made any changes to the disk in a long time.

Oh well.. I'll see if I can store the files temporarily somewhere so I can back
it up and format the disk with ext3 instead.