Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

> 
> Post the actual output of 'ls -la'. Also the output of 'df 
> /media/usb-key' with the device mounted would help
> 

$ ls -la /media/usb-key
drwxr-xr-x 2 brownh brownh    20480 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root   root       4096 Jul 17 15:16 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh  1071529 Aug 14 14:35 Brooks_Angelo_Maya-1.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh   384142 Aug 15 16:11 Brooks_Asjah-1.JPG
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh   498168 Aug 10 21:42 Brooks_Chanel.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh   491997 Aug 10 22:27 Brooks_Curtis_Sandra.png
...

$ df /media/usb-key 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1               499440    303916    195524  61% /media/usb-key

> Hmmm... appears to be some hardware error or a case of filesystem 
> corruption. Did you try dosfsck on the drive?

I agree that it seems to be file system corruption, but dosfsck didn't
help. On unmounted device:

# dosfsck /dev/sdd
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Logical sector size is zero.

> Use mkdosfs. Unless you assigned a drive letter to your flash drive, 
> mformat is unlikely to work.

I tried mkdosfs on an unmounted device:

# mkdosfs -I /dev/sdd
mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005): 

when I mounted it, the files remain. Hoever, for some reason my xterm
displays them in green, while files are normally displayed in
black. I can add and then delete a test file on the device, which also
shows up green. 

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       Haines Brown, KB1GRM