Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:00:20 +0000 | From | Alex Walker <> | Subject | VFAT problems in 2.4.14 |
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I was copying some files from a reiserfs partition to a FAT32 partition with the simple command `sudo cp -a Docs/mywork My\ Documents\Work`. Where "My\ Documents" is a symlink to a directory on my windows partition. I did this as sudo since I had no set up permissions on my FAT32 partition for my normal user. I then rebooted into Windows, only to discover that it had gone badly wrong.
The original directory had only 3 subdirectories. 2 of these transferred across without any errors. The final one was created, but the contents corrupted. It originally had 1.4M of data in 6 document files. Instead of these files, files and directories with spurious names (lots of symbols I can't type in my editor) were created.
Not only this, but the contents of this directory claimed to total 74G (on a 20G disk!). None of the files were readable in Windows.
I rebooted again into linux and investigated some more. - The files names were all 12 characters long. - There are 72 of these files. - When listing the directories you get "Directory sread (sector 0xd12a66d, limit 6136798" "attempt to access beyond end of device" errrors. - Again, linux thinks the directory is 72G big (but df disagrees on partition size) - Even though the partition is mounted read-only, any attempt to re-copy is met with a "creating `file`: Read-only file system" error
Fortunately it was a copy, not a move!
Hope this is helpful. Any advice appreciated.
aLeX
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