[App_rpt-users] e2fsck

[Geoff]

On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
> That's what it appears to me.
>
> A ham this morning told me the problem maybe the person making the
> distro images is using a windows machine, not linux, and he is making
> the .img files for FAT when they *should* be ext2
>
> I've been trying everything that I can find to do the filesystem check,
> but every embedded distro I've tried doesn't support checking DOS or FAT
> files systems.
>

it shouldn't matter what platform is used to burn an image.

There -might- be an issue in putting the image on a thumb-drive. I'm not 
sure what the native format of a thumb-drive is, but I'd venture that 
99% of 'em are FAT32.