Re: FAT panic when renaming directories

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:39:35 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Brian Gerst wrote:

> I was renaming a bunch of directories on a FAT formatted ZIP disk when I
> got this message:
> Feb 27 08:14:59 citadel kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 08:04).
> Feb 27 08:14:59 citadel kernel: FAT error
> Feb 27 08:14:59 citadel kernel: File system has been set read-only
> Feb 27 08:14:59 citadel kernel: Directory 2444506: bad FAT
> Feb 27 08:15:02 citadel kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Feb 27 08:15:02 citadel kernel: 08:04: rw=0, want=113783, limit=98288
> Feb 27 08:15:02 citadel kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Feb 27 08:15:02 citadel kernel: 08:04: rw=0, want=113783, limit=98288
> Feb 27 08:15:02 citadel kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Feb 27 08:15:02 citadel kernel: 08:04: rw=0, want=113784, limit=98288

Could you give name & contents of directories in question?

Or, better yet, if you can reproduce it on floppy - send me the image of
filesystem (dd if=/dev/fd0 ...).

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