Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262107AbVELUcO (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:32:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262106AbVELUcO (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:32:14 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:11780 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262107AbVELUcL (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 16:32:11 -0400 To: Paul Ionescu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: statfs returns wrong values for 250Gb FAT fs References: <20050510080907.GR1998@verge.net.au> <87oebjxpcc.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> <42811AE6.7020902@mail.telepac.pt> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 05:32:06 +0900 In-Reply-To: (Paul Ionescu's message of "Wed, 11 May 2005 15:23:36 +0300") Message-ID: <877ji4xk1l.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 22 Paul Ionescu writes: > I had the same problem with an external 250 GB vfat USB 2.0 disk. > The disk was formatted/used previously in windows, checkdisk said is OK, > but mounted in linux readonly, game the same error (said only some little > space was free, when in fact it was almost full). > However, I was able to see and copy all files from it. > As it was not my hard disk, I did not reformatted it, nor dosfsck-ed it. > DOSFSCK reported errors with the FAT copy, and other errors, but as I > said, I could access all data on it. If same problem happen, please report. And please let me investigate the details of the filesystem of this state. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi - 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/