From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 15 07:32:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00927106566C for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:32:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45988FC12 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B5B5083D for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:23:43 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:23:43 -0700 Message-ID: <47761.1342337023@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:32:19 -0000 I have a sizable (200GB) external USB 2.0 interface hard drive. (Actually, it's a plain old PATA drive in one of those enclosures that allows it to speak USB 2.0.) So anyway, to make this external drive work with things other than just my FreeBSD system, the drive has been formatted so that it contains a single, all-encompassing FAT32 filesystem. For various reasons that I won't go into, the thing experienced a power fail while it was being written to. I can successfully remount it on my FreeBSD system, so apparently, the FAT32 filesystem isn't too awfully damaged... at least not in the vicinity of the root directory. But I am old school, and paranoid, so I'd really like to run the FAT32 equivalent of fsck on the thing, to clean up any filesystem glitches. Is there any such a tool (as fsck for FAT32) available for freeBSD? If so, where would I find it?