linux-kernel - Re: vfat32 Free Cluster Count Update

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:33:09 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	Gunter Ohrner <G.Ohrner@...t.rwth-aachen.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vfat32 Free Cluster Count Update

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:23:12 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi said:

> I'll dig it more, later. And for right now, please run "df" command, it
> will fix free cluster count.

Wow, that's a real kick in the head for all of us who have a mental concept
of 'df' being basically a read-only program, and "fixing counts" to be more
the job of 'fsck'.... :)

(Or is 'df' simply a known way to force execution of a code path that ends up
fixing the counts as a side-effect?)


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