How to proceed...

[mcc01]

Hi,

(I am using Linux for all this...)

before makeing things even more worst...

Due to several crashes of rockbox the internal FAT filesystem
of my Sansa Clip ZIP is no longer consistent.

I checked it with fsck and it repaired "something".
Since I have still crashes of rockbox (own builds),
I think, that the whole internal SD needs to be reinitialized.

But how should I proceed?
I this correct:
Deinstall rockbox
Use mkfs.fat to created a new filesystem on the INTERNAL flash (is /this/ allowed???)
Reboot the Sansa
Reinstall rockbox?

What is the correct way to cope with filessystem problems
of the INTERNAL flash???

Best regards,
mcc

[saratoga]

Using your operating system's check disk utility is sufficient. 

[mcc01]

... YESNO...
sometimes -- if fsck finds cluster/sectors(or what wording is the correct one here...
which, seems to be allocated but cannot be assigned to a certain file, it creates
"new files" which have the same value as what you can find on filesystems
of UNIX systems in the folder "lost+found" (after a crash/powerfail etc).
But this data are missing somewhere else.
From a logical point of view, the filesystem may be ok again...
But the data are not in most cases.
Finding the file/s which are corrupted by that process is hard...
More efficient it is to throw away ALL data, reinitialize the filesystem
and copy back the data from a source, which is known to be valid.

BUT: Am I allowed to do so?
AND: What to do, if fsck asks for help?
I am not /THAT/ a FAT hacker...

Best regards,
mcc