Comment 13 for bug 48806

Kevin, can you please provide us some more information - you report "it just hangs", because we cannot reproduce this problem.

The original report discussed the truncating of a file on a FAT32 file system. This bug was likely caused by an integer overflow, which was fixed in Bug #63831, which also appears to be the same as Bug #47215.

In addition, dosfscheck had a bug that caused a rename of over 10000 files to fail, as reported in Bug #68153.

The original report went on to suggest a work-around by not checking the disk at all, by altering the fstab and scripts were supplied to implement that.

Of course this is not an actual fix of the problem.

The request Stefan and I made, for more information was legitimate. The truncation of a file can be explained by bug #63831, in which case this is a duplicate bug, or it might be caused by another problem, in which case this needs more information.

The wish list status I cannot personally explain, but I suspect it relates to the nature of changing fstab, which in my opinion should not happen anyway, other than as a work-around.

The owner of this bug might have a different opinion and I do not speak for them. All I know is that Stefan and I have been working on the other bugs.