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FAT filesystem errors on Ipod Video 5.5 80GB

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gevaerts:
You checked /dev/sdd, while your filesystem is on /dev/sdd2

swimmer:
Gnaaa - my copy+paste was not complete :-(


--- Code: ---swimmer ~ # fsck.vfat /dev/sdd2
dosfsck 3.0.2, 28 Feb 2009, FAT32, LFN
open /dev/sdd2:No such file or directory
swimmer ~ # fsck.vfat /dev/sdd
dosfsck 3.0.2, 28 Feb 2009, FAT32, LFN
Too many clusters (4884357) for FAT16 filesystem.
swimmer ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sdd: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
84 heads, 62 sectors/track, 7502 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 5208 * 2048 = 10665984 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20202020

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1               1          10       96264    0  Empty
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd2              10        7503    78054352    b  W95 FAT32
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But thanks to your intervention I was put on the right track - there is a udev-rule that moves /dev/sdd2 to /dev/ipod and doing a 'fsck.fvat -a /dev/ipod' revealed some unused clusters which were repaired ...

Many thanks gevaerts!!  8)

Edit: I still don't get it why I could perform all those actions manually (editing cfg-files & installing themes) while rbutilqt bailed out immediately?!? Anyway - it all seems to work now again and I'm happy to thank you guys again ... especially gevaerts!!!  8)  ;D

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: swimmer on May 28, 2009, 06:46:48 PM ---I still don't get it why I could perform all those actions manually (editing cfg-files & installing themes) while rbutilqt bailed out immediately?!?
--- End quote ---
That's rather simple: FAT uses simply linked lists and tables holding the directory entries. If you now modify files that have broken file information the system will get into trouble: if you modify files that do not contain broken information (or seem to not contain broken information -- if for example two files pointing to the same data this can cause corruption as well) everything at least seems to work fine. Unless you check the directory structures you won't notice errors like two files pointing to the same data, so the OS won't notice it immediately.

Judging from the syslog you posted initially rbutil tried to delete a file which was broken. If you unzip a new build / theme / etc. to the player you obviously don't delete files, thus you won't notice it if a file can't get deleted properly.

swimmer:
Well - I tried to install a theme with rbutilqt which did not succeed so I tried it manually with unzip which succeeded and this puzzled me ;-)

Thanks for your explanation and the time you invested to help me and let's hope that it's fixed now!

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