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[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"mount" should tell you the filesystem type (I'd guess vfat) and the 
device name. Have you tried umount  /path/to/pen/drive ; fsck /dev/<pen 
drive device> ? You may need to force a check.

Russell Jones
Oxford University Careers Service

Tim Hanson wrote:
> I have a Sandisk e250 mp3 player, configured to act as a usb drive when 
> connected to my PC.  I have been loading directories of mp3s to it, and it 
> organizes them into a database and plays them in several ways.  It works 
> well.
>
> When I try to erase the directories, I've been left with a few "garbage" 
> directories, i.e., those with valid names but garbage files within them, and 
> I can't get rid of them.  Some of the entries are pretty large sized, so that 
> I've lost a couple of hundred megabytes, and I increase the size of the 
> garbage section, and lose more room, everytime I wipe the disk.
>
> I don't know what kind of file system it uses.  Is there a disk editor I can 
> use to get rid of this mess and get back all the room I've lost?
>   

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