On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:13:55AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Let me thank everyone for their advice; it looks as if I have enough > ideas to try out now. I'll do that when I'm fully awake an report > back on what worked. *SKIP* > > ls -l lists them like this: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik 0 Sep 1 2007 06 - Track 6.mq3 > > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? 07/TRA~1.MP3 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik 3585716 Sep 1 2007 08-URA~1.MP3 *CUT*
Sorry being late to the party and I have multiple confirmations to different mails, so these went in one bag. Yes, kernel somehow constructs i-node numbers from VFAT (which doesn't have i-node per se). Thus, in your listing, multiple files with same i-node -- filesystem is corrupted. Yes, mtools can manipulate 8.3 FAT names instead of VFAT names. But, as we confirmed, filesystem is corrupted -- it won't help either. If everything fails -- consider magicrescue. -- Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
