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From: Karsten Becker <KB@Karsten-Becker.de>
Subject: Re: Problems with big vfat
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:11:33 +0200
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>Can you do some tests with non-important data?
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As its a very big partition and it's half-full, I don't wan't to risk a 
data loss. Just when there is definitly no other way I would do so.

>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.
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Ok, Without writing anything to the disk I got the following output:
Warning: FAT32 support is still ALPHA.
File system has 12053628 clusters but only space for 3664510 FAT entries.
dosfsck 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN

BTW, is the the newest version of fsck.msdos?
If you would like i can send you my fat.
Cheers,
Karsten