Re: directory changed to a file

[Steven Augart]

This is outside the scope of the bug-coreutils
mailing list; sorry.  I personally do not recommend
keeping data that you really care about
on any variant of the FAT filesystem; it's too vulnerable to miscellaneous
damage.
I know that there are commercial products
which fix broken FAT filesystems; some Linux distributions also have the
programs "fsck.msdos"
and "fsck.vfat"; perhaps one
of those will help you.

--Steve Augart

Randy Solomonson <address@hidden> Sent by: address@hidden 11/17/2003 11:58 PM

To:        address@hidden         cc:                 Subject:        directory changed to a file

Hello-

A directory that I have was strangely changed into a file.  Is there
a
way to change it back to a directory?  I think cvs was doing it.  It's
very odd.

The directory was in a fat drive that was mounted in fstab as:
/dev/hdb1               /mnt/100gig
            auto   
rw,users,umask=0,gid=504,noexec,suid 1 2




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