Re: Problems with big vfat

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:38:39PM +0200, Karsten Becker wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a very big (367GB) Fat32-FS. I need this partition for data 
> exchange between windows and linux.
> When I have mounted the FS for a longer time and do some changes on this 
> I got lost filesegments in scandisk. The partition is on a 6*100GB Raid5 
> (3ware 7810). Has anyone an idea what the problem might be?
> Is there any better way to exchange Data with windows?  (reiserfs,ext3 
> rw-driver for windows?)
> Cheers,
> Karsten

Can you do some tests with non-important data?

If so, try to stress the vfat filesystem and scandisk in dos.  If scandisk
finds errors, don't fix them.  Reboot back into linux and run fsck on it
there.

Now report the errors that fsck finds, if any (read the documentation first,
there are some tips).  Maybe they can get enough information on the type of
corruption there is to update vfatfs, and fsck.vfat. 

Gordon, Roman (vfat & fsck.vfat maintainer respectively), do you have anything to
say about this? 

Thanks,

Mike