How to maintain vfat fs-partion

[Tony Dietrich]

On Monday 17 Jan 2005 01:38, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 16:52 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > How do I go about doing maintaince on my fat32 harddrive partions? On
> > Windows I know defrag and scandisk are used. And I'm under the
> > impression that such maintaince is done automatically by etx3. So how do
> > I do this with vfat?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> fsck can be run on an unmounted vfat partition which takes care of the
> scandisk functions.
> I do not know of a way to defrag a vfat partition under Linux.
fsck vfat maintenance is ALPHA AFAIK.
ie. Don't rely on it.
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