F17: trying to diagnose problem with external USB drive

Wed Jul 18 11:54:15 UTC 2012

On 07/18/2012 08:03 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
> rsync -rpvt --delete /photo/ /media/LACIE/photo
>
> the drives ALWAYS becomes read-only at some point, thus making rsync fail
>
> dmesg says (complete output below) that:
>
> [625087.410234] FAT-fs (sdb1): error, fat_free_clusters: deleting FAT entry beyond EOF
> [625087.410239] FAT-fs (sdb1): Filesystem has been set read-only
>
Looks to me like there are too many files for the sinple FAT16 directory 
structure on the device.

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