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A DVD-RAM has just got corrupted, with several directories listed as unreadable, unknown items and I need to repair it -- those disks are too difficult to obtain to just discard.
The only reference I can find to fsck.udf is at Gentoo, and I presume their repository is not going to be accessible using Fedora?
The only reference I can find to fsck.udf is at Gentoo, and I presume their repository is not going to be accessible using Fedora?
There's more refs but most of them are dead AFAIK. Like all packages it has to have a source, and if you look at Gentoo's CVS of sys-fs/udftools you'll find they based it on http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf/. If you go that road you might want to check http://gentoo-portage.com/sys-fs/udf...hangeLog#ptabs for any patches that didn't reach upstream CVS. OTOH rpm.pbone.net shows there's packages for Fedora.
Thanks for your quick reply: once I knew I needed udftools rather than fsck.udf, I was able to find it at Fedora. All I need now is some documentation: no man file!
That project might be dead - I've seen an occasional query on lkml regarding the status of the fsck.udf.
Dont recall seeing a positive response - but I might have missed it.
I spoke too soon: udftools does not include fsck.udf! It will create a filing system, but not repair one. The link given by unSpawn mentions fsck.udf, but where one finds it remains a mystery.
I suppose I could always try putting ext2 on the disk, but it might make its glacial progress (3x!) even slower. I know Windows users had to reformat DVDRAMs in the days of XP, and it slowed them down.
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