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Offline foxsam

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fsck.vfat
« on: March 30, 2016, 07:56:22 PM »
I am trying to clear up a usb flash drive that gives me the message:
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[  539.258985] FAT-fs (sda1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
I am getting stuck running
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$ fsck /dev/sda1
fsck (busybox 1.24.1, 2015-10-24 10:25:55 UTC)
fsck: fsck.vfat: No such file or directory
I looked but cannot seem to find how/where to get the proper fsck.vfat.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

Offline bmarkus

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Re: fsck.vfat
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2016, 10:15:04 PM »
Install dosfstools from repo.

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root@box:/home/tc# fsck.fat /dev/mmcblk0p1
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/dev/mmcblk0p1: 84 files, 14379/15321 clusters
root@box:/home/tc#
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