On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:34:07PM -0400, BlkPoohba wrote: > > This is probably not a Fedora issue but i am using Fedora Core 1 so I > thought I would ask. Sunday I was able to access /mnt/Music/ in its > entirety. Last nite I could access everything except for > /mnt/Music/Full Albums. Today I can't access anything. When I 'ls > /mnt/Music/' I get: > ls: /mnt/Music/79?..: No such file or directory > ls: /mnt/Music/??????@???@ /: No such file or directory > ls: /mnt/Music/? .... > &????w.?????: No such file or directory .... > These are what used to be my files and directories. > > fdisk -l: > Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116301 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 54662 27549616+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdb2 54662 116301 31065992 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > > When I came home Sunday afternoon my system was locked up. I rebooted > and I guess everything was fine because I was able to listen to my music > over the web while at work. When I got home last nite i could not > access the Full Albums dir. Now all of the dir look weird. Are these all FAT32 filesystems? How are they mounted? Are they only accessed by one operating system? Have you unmounted them and run a filesystem consistency checker (fsck -t vfat) on them. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I also have /mnt/Video which > has home videos and pictures that i really don't want to loose. It > would always mount at boot. mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2 /mnt/Video but > now i get wrong fs when trying to mount it manually because it won't > mount at boot Why the heck are these vfat? Tis a fragile file system.... -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.