From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S637772AbXDSOVm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:21:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S637779AbXDSOVm (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:21:42 -0400 Received: from smtp01.cdmon.com ([86.109.99.230]:49483 "EHLO smtp01.cdmon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S637781AbXDSOVl (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:21:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:23:29 +0200 From: DervishD To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Linux-kernel Subject: Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32 Message-ID: <20070419142329.GG8287@DervishD> Mail-Followup-To: Boaz Harrosh , Linux-kernel References: <20070419085750.GA2833@DervishD> <46274407.8010602@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <46274407.8010602@panasas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: DervishD Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Boaz :) * Boaz Harrosh dixit: > > Apart from not using the device itself to delete files (and probably > > not using Windows for that, either) and to run fsck.vfat now and > > then, is anything I can do to avoid this problem? > > > Not that I know how to fix it. But have you tried running chkdsk on a > device deleted files in windows. Just that I know, that windows would > silently ignore fat errors and will only report them in chkdsk. I've done that and the problem is not fixed. I have to use fsck.vfat instead. > Deleting files in windows works fine. There is no problems with it and > windows updates everything. I do that all the time. True, I've tested it, too. I'm going to report the problem to the device manufacturer (it's a Cowon iAUDIO), but probably doing it in the device will be very slow :( > (I would even theorize that if you delete files on the device and than > farther delete more files on windows, than windows will fix the > problem on the fly) Probably, and it may be a good fix, but I seldom plug the device on Windows. Thanks for the answer :) Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen!