* Andrew Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070404 08:54]:
> The file system on /dev/hda8 was checked immediately before reboot using the
> GUI tool
> in Windows 2000. As the output /var/log/fsck/checkfs shows /sbin/fsck.vfat
> decided
> during boot that the filesystem was inconsistent and automatically truncated
> the file.
> Note that it hasn't actually released the clusters yet. The clusters seem to
> be freed
> during when fsck is run at the next boot.
>
> Also shown below is the result of manually copying an equivalant file, and
> manually
> running fsck.vfat is sufficent to reproduce the problem.
>
> A quick test shows that Sarge does not truncate the file during boot.
The only difference between these versions is:
--- dosfstools-2.11.orig/dosfsck/boot.c
+++ dosfstools-2.11/dosfsck/boot.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
({ \
unsigned short __v; \
memcpy( &__v, &f, sizeof(__v) ); \
- CF_LE_W( *(unsigned short *)&f ); \
+ CF_LE_W( *(unsigned short *)&__v ); \
})
#else
#define GET_UNALIGNED_W(f) CF_LE_W( *(unsigned short *)&f )
Cheers,
Andi
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