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SubjectRe: Is there a way to limit VFAT allocation?
Zoltan Boszormenyi schrieb:
> Prakash Punnoor írta:
>> Am Montag 16 Oktober 2006 12:06 schrieb Zoltan Boszormenyi:
>>
>>> Is there a way to tell the VFAT driver to exclude
>>> the last N sectors from the allocation strategy?
>>>
>>
>> Can't you mark that clusters as bad with a diskeditor?
>>
>
> Can you suggest one that works on Linux?
> Or which bits should I change if I use LDE?
> (lde.sourceforge.net)

Try mbadblocks, part of the Mtools package (http://mtools.linux.lu/).
If it doesn't help, and you are brave, you may want to play with
mdoctorfat, which comes with Mtools, too, but is hidden for some reason. :->

René
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