Re: FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:23:40PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 05:55 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:31:49AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> [snip]
> >>
> >>I thought fsck was a bit based integrity checker and didn't care about
> >>directories?... and how do you know what directory fsck is on anyway?
> >
> >The same warning repeated endlessly
> >
> 
> Show us.  Include *everything*.  (Snip after 5 lines of repetition.)

Hi again,

After a break I went back to try to repair the
virus-infested 30GB partition:

fsck.msdos -a xp_sda1.img

After several hours of error repairing, mostly in the WinSxS
directory, fsck.msdos gets stuck in a loop, repeating the
following lines endlessly while incrementing the count.

Regards,

/WINDOWS/WinSxS/x86_Microsoft.MSXML2_6bd6b9abf345378f_4.20.9818.0_x-ww_8ff50c5d/�i�F\014$\023�.i��/ghtColor.\001\000\011/FSCK0000.014/��,��\024�2.4�b/��������.\001\000\000
  Duplicate directory entry.
  First    Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Second   Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Auto-renaming second.
  Renamed to FSCK0005.286
/WINDOWS/WinSxS/x86_Microsoft.MSXML2_6bd6b9abf345378f_4.20.9818.0_x-ww_8ff50c5d/�i�F\014$\023�.i��/ghtColor.\001\000\011/FSCK0000.014/��,��\024�2.4�b/��������.\001\000\000
  Duplicate directory entry.
  First    Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Second   Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Auto-renaming second.
  Renamed to FSCK0005.287
/WINDOWS/WinSxS/x86_Microsoft.MSXML2_6bd6b9abf345378f_4.20.9818.0_x-ww_8ff50c5d/�i�F\014$\023�.i��/ghtColor.\001\000\011/FSCK0000.014/��,��\024�2.4�b/��������.\001\000\000
  Duplicate directory entry.
  First    Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Second   Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Auto-renaming second.
  Renamed to FSCK0005.288
/WINDOWS/WinSxS/x86_Microsoft.MSXML2_6bd6b9abf345378f_4.20.9818.0_x-ww_8ff50c5d/�i�F\014$\023�.i��/ghtColor.\001\000\011/FSCK0000.014/��,��\024�2.4�b/�������?.\001\000\000
  Duplicate directory entry.
  First    Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Second   Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Auto-renaming second.
  Renamed to FSCK0005.289
/WINDOWS/WinSxS/x86_Microsoft.MSXML2_6bd6b9abf345378f_4.20.9818.0_x-ww_8ff50c5d/�i�F\014$\023�.i��/ghtColor.\001\000\011/FSCK0000.014/��,��\024�2.4�b/��������.\001\000\000
  Duplicate directory entry.
  First    Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Second   Size 0 bytes, date 22:04:02 Dec 31 1979
  Auto-renaming second.
  Renamed to FSCK0005.290



-- 
Joel Roth