From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jan 20 17:36:38 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at pp.htv.fi From: Eero Tamminen Organization: Koti To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] dos fsck Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:34:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4B562200.4070705@atari-source.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201001210034.20339.oak@helsinkinet.fi> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: oak@helsinkinet.fi Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hi, On Wednesday 20 January 2010, Mariusz Buras wrote: > I wouldn't trust ANY TOS based tool. Too many bad experiences with that. > I'll try dosfsck. If you have large & full file system and little RAM, make sure that your dosfsck version source includes patch from here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosfstools/+bug/189184 Dosfsck keeps the whole file system structure in RAM and versions without the patch could use quite a bit of RAM (depending on FAT table size and libc allocator memory overhead). - Eero