If you can read it fine, then I would get the data off, recreate the filesystem (mkfs - called 'reformatting' in dos world), and put the data back on. You'll get defragmentation as an added bonus. ;-)
* brian [Wed, 22 Oct 2003 at 18:52 -0600] <quote> > I have a zip disk that has what I think is a corrupted file system. I can read > all of the files just fine, the problem is one of the directorys is stuck in > an endless loop, hopefully I am explaining this well enough. for instance the > myfolders directory will show all of the contents of the first listing in a > neverending fashion. > > I tried to use dosfsck and it is ending with a error of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/brian# dosfsck -a /dev/hdb4 > dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN > Seek to 250609152:Invalid argument > > is there a different program that I could try? > > > Brian > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list </quote> -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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