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Autor: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] SOLVED: slashes in FAT file names
Le 02/01/2019 à 00:22, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> I have a 32GiB microSD card an am reying to read it on my Devuan system.
>> I munted it with a simpel mount /dev/sdb1 /nedia/hendrik/
>>
>> It reads almost everything fine, except for a few files whose names
>> contain '/' characters. I can handle the other horribly weird
>> characters in file names -- emacs Rename in the directory
>> editor works just fine. But the names containing '/'s even have
>> emacs stymied.
>>
>> ls -l lists them like this:
>>
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik       0 Sep  1  2007 06 - Track 6.mq3
>> -????????? ? ?       ?             ?            ? 07/TRA~1.MP3
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik 3585716 Sep  1  2007 08-URA~1.MP3

>>
>> With the slash, it can't even figure out the permissions, ownership, or
>> file size. Preumably some parts of the system interpret the '/' as the
>> directory name separator, and in this file system that's not what it
>> is.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas here other than begging, borrowing, or
>> buying a Windows system?
> Thanks for all the advice. Most of it was instructive, and some was
> actually useful.
>
> Didier, thanks for telling me about openat. It won't work here, but it
> will be useful in another project I have.



    Not really me. Was Karl Hammar. I had discarded it without telling
to the list, maybe too quickly...


>
> I haven't tried fsck.fat.
>
> I tried magicrescue. But it kept finding many many starts for mp3
> files, and running a script for each one to see if it was really and mp3
> file, in the course of which writing file hundreds of megbytes long,
> deciding it wasn't mp3 after all and deleting it.
>
> Far too slow. Running for a full 18 hours found nothing, and it looked
> as if it had searched ony a fraction of the 32G SDXC card.
>
> I then used WxHexEdit, a hex editor, in immediate update mode.


    Do I understand correctly that WxHexEdit can edit directories in place?


>    It found
> the troublesome file names, and I replaced the slashes by zeros.  After
> that it was easy to read those files.