Author Topic: Random Sansa Clip+ freezes (Read 2206 times)

Plunk · « **on:** July 27, 2014, 05:31:04 AM »

Hi everyone.

My Rockboxed Sansa Clip+ has been randomly freezing a lot lately, generally while playing songs. Sometimes it also gets stuck on the startup screen ("scanning disk"), sometimes it does not even see the micro SD card. These problems seem to only occur when I'm listening to music that's on the micro SD card and they keep happening even though I've reinstalled Rockbox on the device, so I think it's not coming from the software. It might be caused by either the SD cards I use or the SD port. How can I know for sure?

Thanks

gevaerts · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2014, 01:32:57 PM »

Check the filesystem (both internal and the sd card) for corruption.

Plunk · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2014, 03:15:12 PM »

How can I do that?

saratoga · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2014, 03:22:39 PM »

Depends on your operating system, but if you google "[operating system name] check disk for errors" you'll probably find directions.

In windows, most versions let you do it by right clicking on the disk under My Computer.

__builtin · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2014, 05:58:38 PM »

In case you're using Linux, it's

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fsck

, standing for "filesystem check".
First MAKE SURE YOUR CLIP+ IS NOT MOUNTED, then run

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sudo fsck /dev/[PARTITION_NAME_HERE]

, where PARTITION_NAME_HERE is the name of your partition you want to check.
To check both the internal flash and SD, run the above command on both partitions (probably called /dev/sdb1, and /dev/sdb2).

[Saint] · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2014, 10:31:00 PM »

Quote from: theunamedguy on July 31, 2014, 05:58:38 PM

it's
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fsck
, standing for "filesystem check".

If you want to be pedantic, and I frequently do, its file system consistency check.

[Saint]

__builtin · « **Reply #6 on:** August 02, 2014, 11:26:12 AM »

Quote from: [Saint] on August 01, 2014, 10:31:00 PM

Quote from: theunamedguy on July 31, 2014, 05:58:38 PM
it's
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fsck
, standing for "filesystem check".
If you want to be pedantic, and I frequently do, its file system consistency check.

[Saint]

Well, thank you for this tidbit of (incorrect) information.

Wikipedia states that it stands for filesystem check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck

[Saint] · « **Reply #7 on:** August 02, 2014, 07:54:38 PM »

And we all know that Wikipedia is infallible...right.

Its fairly self explanatory.

You're not checking "the file system", what would that consist of? Seeing if its there, if it exists? We know the file system exists, we don't care about that.
No, you're checking the file system consistency.

Do a little bit more looking around before you decide the first Google query you find that agrees with you is correct.

[Saint]

__builtin · « **Reply #8 on:** August 02, 2014, 08:40:37 PM »

ArchWiki says so: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fsck

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fsck stands for "file system check"

abbreviations.com says so: http://www.abbreviations.com/serp.php?st=FSCK

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fsck

file system check

A 6-upvoted Stack Overflow answer on the git fsck command:

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It stands for File System ChecK. The name is taken from the Unix fsck command, which is used to validate a file system.

The manpage for "fsck" doesn't even have the word "consistency" in it.
I think it stands for "filesystem check"...

Though you are free to disagree...