Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 May 2013 20:44:05 +0200 | From | Oleksij Rempel <> | Subject | Re: VFAT complains that my file system may be corrupted |
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Am 06.05.2013 20:36, schrieb Tony Luck: > Built Linus' tree this morning (HEAD = > d7ab7302f970a254997687a1cdede421a5635c68) and got this message: > > FAT-fs (sda1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be > corrupt. Please run fsck. > > when booting my ia64 machine. The message may well be legitimate > because I did crash the machine, so the filessytem was not unmounted > cleanly. > > BUT ... If I unmount and run fsck as it suggests, then I see: > > # fsck /boot/efi > fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16 > dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN > There are differences between boot sector and its backup. > Differences: (offset:original/backup) > 65:01/00 > 1) Copy original to backup > 2) Copy backup to original > 3) No action > > I tried option 3 - fsck made no other changes, but I still see the > message. I tried > option 1 - and I still see the message. So I went for option 2 ... and > guess what, > I still see the message when I mount this filesystem. > > Note that with either option 1 or 2 "fsck" says: > > Leaving file system unchanged. > /dev/sda1: 20 files, 19865/255496 clusters > > This is the first time I've ever seen this message ... but I haven't > had this system crash for some time, so not really sure when this may > have started.
Hi Tony, i provided patches for dosfstools for some time now, you need at least v3.0.14. If your system do not provide it you will need to grub it here: http://daniel-baumann.ch/gitweb/?p=software/dosfstools.git
-- Regards, Oleksij
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