[opensuse] sandisk - usb mode
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? -- The Roman Rule The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 26 November 2006 19:45, 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.
How are you trying to get rid of them? Have you tried changing to that directory in a shell, and typing rm -f * ? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
"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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