I have an external hdd which is formatted with fat for use by both on linux and windows. The issue is that I can't delete some of the files I have which show up with size 0. Also, the modification timestamp (as detected by Krusader, the file manager I am using) is 1935. How can I delete these kind of files without affecting the running fs?
1 Answer
Most likely your FAT table is damaged. You can run fsck
to see if this is indeed the case. But I would recommend finding other tools (ie. Testdisk) to fix FAT table before you run fsck
to "fix" it...if you value the other data on the drive.
fsck
or equivalent on the file system?/var/log/kern.log
(better check from the time you plug in the disk to the time you get the error)?