Re: fsck on vfat usb drive

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/29/2009 08:27 PM, Oscar Corte wrote:
> Hi all:
> I’m trying to use fsck to check my usb device.
>  
> According to the man page for fsck there should be available vfat type through the –t option.
>  
> However I receive the next error:
> fsck: 1-40-WIP (14-NOV-200)fsck: fsck.vfat: not foundfsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.vfat for /media/usbdisk
>  
> when executing:
> fsck –t vfat /media/usbdisk
>  
> What am I missing?

Maybe the dosfstools package??

$ apt-file search fsck.vfat
dosfstools: /sbin/fsck.vfat
dosfstools: /usr/share/man/man8/fsck.vfat.8.gz

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