Re: Is there a way to limit VFAT allocation?

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Rene Scharfe írta:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi schrieb:
>   
> > Prakash Punnoor írta:
> >     
> > > Am Montag 16 Oktober 2006 12:06 schrieb Zoltan Boszormenyi:
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Is there a way to tell the VFAT driver to exclude
> > > > the last N sectors from the allocation strategy?
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > Can't you mark that clusters as bad with a diskeditor?
> > >   
> > >       
> > Can you suggest one that works on Linux?
> > Or which bits should I change if I use LDE?
> > (lde.sourceforge.net)
> >     
>
> Try mbadblocks, part of the Mtools package (http://mtools.linux.lu/).
> If it doesn't help, and you are brave, you may want to play with
> mdoctorfat, which comes with Mtools, too, but is hidden for some reason. :->
>
> René
>   

Thanks. I have set up my /root/.mtoolsrc and:

# mbadblocks x:
plain_io: Input/output error
Bad cluster 63985 found
plain_io: Input/output error
Bad cluster 63986 found
plain_io: Input/output error
Bad cluster 63987 found
plain_io: Input/output error
Bad cluster 63988 found
plain_io: Input/output error
Bad cluster 63989 found

After unplugging the device didn't reformat itself.
Filling the disk seems to be working. It gives me
"disk full" without any new "Buffer I/O error on device sdc1"
or FAT panic messages in the kernel logs.

Thanks and best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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