Re: fsck on vfat usb drive
2009/1/30 Oscar Corte <oect_1964@hotmail.com>:
> 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 found
> fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.vfat for /media/usbdisk
>
> when executing:
> fsck –t vfat /media/usbdisk
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Regards
>
> Oscar Corte
Secondly to Ron's suggestion, you don't fsck mounted file systems.
You will have to unmount the device and use the /dev entry that
coresponds to the device.
Adrian
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