Debian Bug report logs - #198561
dosfsck doesn't like spaces in 8.3 filenames on VFAT

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Finny Merrill <griever@t2n.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org, roman@hodek.net

Subject: dosfsck doesn't like spaces in 8.3 filenames on VFAT

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:53:46 -0400

Package: dosfstools
Version: 2.9-1

dosfsck doesn't seem to like filenames with spaces in them that were 
created
by a pre-win95 program (i.e. win 3.1 or dos programs).

Example run:

iris:~# fsck -t vfat /dev/hdb1
fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN
/Documents/Kitty/FAX FLAP.DOC
 Bad file name.
1) Drop file
2) Rename file
3) Auto-rename
4) Keep it
? 4
/Documents/Kitty/FAX FLAP.MCW
 Bad file name.
1) Drop file
2) Rename file
3) Auto-rename
4) Keep it
? 4
/WINWORD/TREAD 2.DOC
 Bad file name.
1) Drop file
2) Rename file
3) Auto-rename
4) Keep it
? 4
/dev/hdb1: 6897 files, 40846/49069 clusters
iris:~#

If I choose to rename it and remove the space, OR if I do auto-rename, it 
goes along fine then prints
"leaving file system unchanged" and doesn't do anything.

I renamed the files manually and now it runs fine.

This disk was previously installed in a Win95 machine running a pre-win95 
version of word.

Message #10 received at 198561-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

To: 198561-done@bugs.debian.org, 198561-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: dosfsck doesn't like spaces in 8.3 filenames on VFAT

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:16:59 +0200

Version: 2.11

Hi,

this is not reproducable with 2.11 and seems fixed, hence closing this bug.

Regards,
Daniel

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