Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: vfat corruption in 2.6.0? | From | OGAWA Hirofumi <> | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:10:09 +0900 |
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Ludovico Gardenghi <garden@despammed.com> writes:
> He has a quite big vfat partition (60 GB) created with mkfs.vfat; he > ran a program that had to write ~5000 files summing up to 18 GB but > some hour after that program started (it's a simulation tool that > runs for ~20 hours on an athlon XP 2500+) his /var started to fill with > log errors of "attempt to access beyond the end of the device". > The files are very fragmented because they are written line by line > more or less in parallel. > > Moreover, the partition resulted unmountable and fsck.vfat could not > manage to repair it --- the only solution being running MS win's > scandisk tool. After the repair some of the smaller files on the disk > got lost and some part of the bigger files got corrupted. > > This happened twice (with test3 and test6) and the partition was > completely erased and re-created between the 2 crashes. > > I can't tell much more than this because my friend had to erase his logs > because they filled up /var. > > Ludovico > -- > <dunadan@libero.it> #acheronte (irc.freenode.net) ICQ: 64483080 > GPG ID: 07F89BB8 Jabber: garden@jabber.students.cs.unibo.it > -- This is signature nr. 1249 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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