From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@dunaweb.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to limit VFAT allocation?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:10:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4533BD1E.3080804@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4533658A.5030105@dunaweb.hu>
Zoltan Boszormenyi schrieb:
> Prakash Punnoor írta:
>> Am Montag 16 Oktober 2006 12:06 schrieb Zoltan Boszormenyi:
>>
>>> Is there a way to tell the VFAT driver to exclude
>>> the last N sectors from the allocation strategy?
>>>
>>
>> Can't you mark that clusters as bad with a diskeditor?
>>
>
> Can you suggest one that works on Linux?
> Or which bits should I change if I use LDE?
> (lde.sourceforge.net)
Try mbadblocks, part of the Mtools package (http://mtools.linux.lu/).
If it doesn't help, and you are brave, you may want to play with
mdoctorfat, which comes with Mtools, too, but is hidden for some reason. :->
René
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-16 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-16 10:06 Is there a way to limit VFAT allocation? Zoltan Boszormenyi
2006-10-16 10:25 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-10-16 10:57 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2006-10-16 17:10 ` Rene Scharfe [this message]
2006-10-17 7:27 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2006-10-16 10:37 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
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