Re: [orca-list] partition help

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Gparted has  a repair option, but I don't remember if it will at all apply to this case. 
What caused the problem? Is the bat filesystem on a usb stick?
Unless the gpparted option does aply I don't know of any GUI tools for this kind of thing.
Google is your friend in this kind of situration. 
Here are some things to start with. You may be best using dd or ddrescue to copy the partition somewhere in 
case of further corruption, and then:

I copied the below from
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilesystemTroubleshooting

dosfstools - FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 (vfat) filesystem

   In order to create and check/repair these Microsoft(TM)'s filesystems, dosfstools package needs to be 
installed. Similarly to ext filesystems' tools,
   dosfsck has softlinks too - fsck.msdos and fsck.vfat. Options, however, vary slightly.

  dosfsck cheatsheet

   These examples will use FAT32 and /dev/sdc1


fsck.vfat -n /dev/sdc1 - a simple non-interactive read-only check

     fsck.vfat -a /dev/sdc1 - checks the file system and fixes non-interactively. Least destructive approach 
is always used.

   fsck.vfat -r /dev/sdc1 - interactive repair. User is always prompted when there is more than a single 
approach to fixing a problem.

fsck.vfat -l -v -a -t /dev/sdc1 - a very verbose way of checking and repairing the filesystem 
non-interactively. The -t parameter will 
mark unreadable
       clusters as bad, thus making them unavailable to newly created files and directories.

   Recovered data will be dumped in the root of the filesystem as fsck0000.rec, fsck0001.rec, etc. This is 
similar to CHK files created by scandisk 
and
   chkdisk on MS Windows.

Here's another link that talks about testdisk.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Advanced_FAT_Repair

B.H.
 Registerd Linux  User 521886


  Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote:
Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:24:04AM -0700

> Hello is there a fix for the following?
> File system:    FAT32, 0xff (Xenix Bad Block Table)
> if so how do I fix this?  I use gui programs not kli if I can help it
> Hank
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