On Thu, 4 May 2000, Robert S. Irrgang wrote:
> Hello!
>
> For change a harddisk on a M$ Win-System, I've backup a (data only!) partition with vfat to a linux partition.
> That's all ok, short copy, enough space on destionation. Thausend of file are copied.
> But on ONE file, linux stopped! Nothing goes on.. no crash message, no output, no keyboard, no mice... the one way. hard reset...
> I've checked this three times and allways the same.
> I've checked the file (an image), it's corrupt.
>
> Why did linux (pre3) crashed by copy this corrupt file from vfat to ext2 (one harddisk to another)?
> I don't know!
OK, let's try to rule out a few possibilities:
Are there any entries in syslog (/var/log/messages)? What is your root
partition? Is anything printed to the console before it lets the smoke
out?
If not:
Have you run ScanDisk on the partition?
If it's OK, try running:
dd if=/mnt/vfat/corrupt-file.jpg of=/dev/null
See if that shows any errors.
This should rule out the usual suspect - corrupted filesystem.
James.
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