Bug#766444: fsck.vfat catches a problem made by mkfs.vfat but fails
Package: dosfstools
Version: 3.0.26-4
Severity: wishlist
File: /sbin/mkfs.fat
Here we see fsck.vfat catches a problem made by mkfs.vfat
# mkfs.vfat -n JID_ANDR_1 -c -v /dev/sdh2
mkfs.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
Auto-selecting FAT32 for large filesystem
/dev/sdh2 has 122 heads and 62 sectors per track,
hidden sectors 0x232800;
logical sector size is 512,
using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 4603904 sectors;
drive number 0x80;
filesystem has 2 32-bit FATs and 8 sectors per cluster.
FAT size is 4488 sectors, and provides 574362 clusters.
There are 32 reserved sectors.
Volume ID is ddf1763b, volume label JID_ANDR_1 .
Searching for bad blocks 92240... 181712... 274272... 367840... 461152... 554576... 648016... 741344... 834912... 928480... 1022688... 1114976... 1208192... 1301728... 1395168... 1488352... 1581792... 1673952... 1766624... 1860192... 1953888... 2047584... 2141408... 2235104...
# sync
# fsck.vfat /dev/sdh2
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/
Bad short file name ().
1) Drop file
2) Rename file
3) Auto-rename
4) Keep it
?
^C
Above if I just hit RET instead of a number, the program gets stuck and
I have to hit ^C.
Anyway we see that it can't be fixed automatically at all?!
Anyway I don't know the best choice either.
14:22 130 ~# fsck.vfat -n /dev/sdh2
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/
Bad short file name ().
Auto-renaming it.
Renamed to
/dev/sdh2: 1 files, 1/574362 clusters
14:22 ~# fsck.vfat -y /dev/sdh2
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/
Bad short file name ().
Auto-renaming it.
Renamed to
/dev/sdh2: 1 files, 1/574362 clusters
14:26 ~# fsck.vfat -y /dev/sdh2
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/
Bad short file name ().
Auto-renaming it.
Renamed to
/dev/sdh2: 1 files, 1/574362 clusters
14:26 ~# fsck.vfat -a /dev/sdh2
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/
Bad short file name ().
Auto-renaming it.
Renamed to
/dev/sdh2: 1 files, 1/574362 clusters
14:26 ~# fsck.vfat -a /dev/sdh2
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/
Bad short file name ().
Auto-renaming it.
Renamed to
/dev/sdh2: 1 files, 1/574362 clusters
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