FAT32 RW problems : solved

[Sarangan Thuraisingham / துரைசிங்கம் சாரங்கன்]

Camuzat Sebastien wrote:
> My problem is solved but I do not have an accurate
> reasonwhy.
> I finally booted in ouinedoz, made a checkdisk (there
> was an error in a file format).
> A reboot on breezy, and there we are, it works again,
> I can R/W.
> 
> Maybe I should have made a kind fsck under breezy but
> I had never done that, and not sure it is feasible on
> a FAT sys.
> 
> Is there a linux tool dedicated to scan FAT partitions
> ?
> 
> Seb

Yes, you can use 'fsck' to check the file system and it supports FAT. I 
have used it. But the last time I used it, some files were split-up as 
they had looping chains or something. Basically, I ended up with a video 
that was broken in to bits. That file was not really important, so I 
didn't mind. But you can't say that for any important data though.

So I would strongly recommend that you work with a Linux file system for 
important data. May be you can keep you audio and video files in FAT. 
You can copy the needed data file to FAT, when you are going to load M$ 
Windoze.

But, then again I used the -a option which automatically fixes errors. I 
might have had better results if I chosen to fix it manually.

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Regards,
  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
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