[App_rpt-users] e2fsck

[Jim Duuuude]

Oh good grief!!

The image on the CF is a DOS FAT filesystem that the bootloader
reads to load the kernel and RAM image for the filesystem.

I wouldn't be too terribly concerned about a RAM filesystem
that thinks it needs to be fsck-ed.

Jim


> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:24:24 -0600
> From: ars.w5omr at gmail.com
> To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] e2fsck
> 
> 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.
> 
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