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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> > I then rebooted and mounted the memory card (mount /dev/sda1 /usb) and
> > cd'ed to the /usbcam directory and an ls gave me not the bl3mini file but
> > a lot of garbage which I cannot find any way to get rid of:
> >
> > ?@.??   @       get inte.rfa otocol w.ron??:?????.???
> >
> > endpoin.t i     augsepoc.tno lation.ata t: %s?.vcu?4???v??.?=?
> >
> > and much more similar.
> >
> > I tried to
> > rm -r *
> > rm:  invalid option --
>
> cd ..; rm -r usbcam
>
> It probably found a file called or containing '--' and is interpreting
> it as an option.
>
> Or 'rm -r -- *'. This is supposed to be supported by GNU rm,
> not sure about busybox.

Does not work.   Same message about no such option.  I am using GNU rm, 
not busybox.

I get pages of messages:  Cannot remove:  @....??? (etc.)- no such file or 
directory.

When I do an ls -l I get pages of lines listing the file name followed by 
'no such file or directory' and it suddently switches to upper ascii, 
which I can fix with a reset.

rm * is now doing the same thing, switches to upper ascii after one line 
about invalid option -- .

ls lists things neatly in fives columns in 8.3 format.

> > rm -r usbcam
> > rm:  directory 'usbcam' is write protected:  descent into it anyway?
> > Enter
> > Nothing happened.
>
> I think it's expecting you to answer Y or N.

I answered Y to all the Y/N questions and still nothing was deleted.

> > I don't want to delete all the photos.  How do I get rid of this corrupted
> > image file?  Am I seeing the name of one big file?
>
> Are you unmounting and giving the disks plenty of time to sync up
> before you unplug them? This is not normal behavior for flash disks.

I also noticed that I am unable to umount /usb after mounting /dev/sda1 to 
it.  'Invalid argument'.  I can however umount /dev/sda1 (it tells me 
Invalid argument but umounts it anyway).  I was having unmounting problems 
before this, possibly before I unplugged the card having given up on 
unmounting it.  I should keep notes.


Any other ideas on how to delete the contents of this garbled directory?
I cannot do e2fsck on a DOS directory.  This reader does not work in DOS 
so I cannot use scandisk.  Is there a linux version of scandisk for DOS 
partitions?

> > I now have a 5MB usbcam5 (which should gzip to about 2.5MB again) which
> > contains the netpbm documentation, but nothing for dealing with pcx, bmp,
> > png, or tiff files, just gif, jpeg, and p?m, which I can put onto a zip
> > disk and use if I modify David's 1-floppy USB boot linux to work with
> > parport zip drives.  Does that kernel support imm.o and ppa.o?
>
> Yes, in fact I think I distributed them with an earlier version of
> linux-usb.tar.gz.

I will find a way to get them onto your 1-floppy linux (maybe in place of 
less).

> > I am leery of trying to put any more linux files onto the memory cards.
> > Maybe it is time to give up and just lug along a laptop computer (once we
> > get zgv to work on them).  Or learn to use whatever libraries put into
> > their Window XP computers for image editing, if anything.
>
> As long as you're using a GUI, try Irfanview. Odd name, but it is
> a nice free lightweight image processor.

I used it for a friend with Win98, but the library computers probably do 
not have it.

> David