On Tuesday 04 May 2004 16:45, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote: >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.... > I agree, vfat has lost almost as many files for me as NTFS, which in my experience, has a very poor retention rate, particularly for important system files. > >-- > T o m M i t c h e l l > /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
