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2010-06-19 , 06:41
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Recently had an issue with a bad USB hub causing "/home/user/MyDocs" to become corrupt and requiring a fsck. So I ran "fsck -y /home/user/MyDocs", but it has now been running 24 hours.

Any one know of any issues with running mkfs.vfat on the device it resides on?
 
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2010-06-19 , 06:53
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I don't think checking on a mounted partition brings good things.
 
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2010-06-19 , 07:55
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Actually it is safe to do if it is mounted read only.

That is easily accomplished via "mount -o ro,remount /home/user/MyDocs".
 

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2010-06-19 , 10:35
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Finally gave up on waiting for fsck to complete. As everything important was already in svn, I decided to blow it away.

Reformatting it did not result in any issues.

BTW if any one else ever runs into this issue and wishes to do the same the command is "mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1".
 
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