"scandisk" for linux ?

[anton]

Hello,

what program can I use to scan fat32 disks for errors and fix them in linux ? :)

thanks ...


p.s. sorry for so many questions , I'm a newbie, and got a bunch of other questions coming on ;)

[bdg1983]

None that I know of. The fsck man page only mentions ext2 partitions. You could try searching at freshmeat.net.

Questions are alright as long as your doing your part by reading the documentation that's included with all distros, the massive amount available all over the web and picking up a good Linux reference book.

Sometimes there's no need to ask a question if the answers right in front of you accessable by a few keystrokes or clicks of the mouse.

[Malakin]

file system scanning programs in linux are referred to as "fsck" file system check or at least that's what I assume it stands for.

Doing a "locate fsck" I see there's a /sbin/dosfsck on mandrake 8.0 which has support for fat32. When I run it on a fat32 partition is tells me the fat32 support is in alpha so I'm not sure if you would actually want it making any changes to your disk but it won't hurt to have it scan your disk and see if it at least thinks there's any errors.

"man dosfsck" for more info.

I'm guessing this has to do with your problems reading and writing to your fat32 partitions, the same thought crossed my mind but you have so many partitions I can't see more then one being damaged in some way that it would cause that strange behavior.

[ 19 August 2001: Message edited by: idealego ]