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Hi Penguins.

My penguin (Debian sarge) ran into this problem. In short, directory is not visible by ls, but can change into. This is on USB memory stick, which has fat16 filesystem.

Following is what happens:

Code:

/mnt/mem>ls -a | grep P

AppleShare PDS

PDPB.pdf

0 /mnt/mem>cd PP2

0 /mnt/mem/PP2>ls

f1    f2        

0 /mnt/mem/PP2>

PP2 directory is not seen by "ls", but cd PP2 works, and has correct files in it.

File system looks like

Code:

# fdisk -l /dev/sda



Disk /dev/sda: 1014 MB, 1014497280 bytes

17 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3642 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 544 * 512 = 278528 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1              1        3643      990703+  6  FAT16

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For some reason, fsck goes with fat32 and detects no error.(even with -t fat16)

Code:

# fsck /dev/sda1

fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)

dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN

/dev/sda1: 3111 files, 44938/61902 clusters

# fsck -t fat16 /dev/sda1

fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)

dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN

/dev/sda1: 3111 files, 44938/61902 clusters

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The directory is seen on other machine (Macintosh).
How can I get straighten out?

Any idea will be appreciated.

Happy Penguins!