Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:27:37 +0200 | From | Zoltan Boszormenyi <> | Subject | Re: Is there a way to limit VFAT allocation? |
| |
Rene Scharfe írta: > 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 >
Thanks. I have set up my /root/.mtoolsrc and:
# mbadblocks x: plain_io: Input/output error Bad cluster 63985 found plain_io: Input/output error Bad cluster 63986 found plain_io: Input/output error Bad cluster 63987 found plain_io: Input/output error Bad cluster 63988 found plain_io: Input/output error Bad cluster 63989 found
After unplugging the device didn't reformat itself. Filling the disk seems to be working. It gives me "disk full" without any new "Buffer I/O error on device sdc1" or FAT panic messages in the kernel logs.
Thanks and best regards, Zoltán Böszörményi
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |