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In article <877gpsmp46....@pix.apaflo.com>, fl...@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote: 

> Avoid9...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >-> cd /mnt
> >-> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1  ==
> >mount USBstik sda1
> >[  716.286203] NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
> >[  716.877715] NTFS volume version 3.1.
> >[  716.886281] NTFS-fs error (device sda1): load_system_files(): Volume is dirty.
> >    Mounting read-only.  Run chkdsk and mount in Windows.
> 
> Okay, there is the problem,  and the solution.
> 
That's only one of 4 'opinions'. See below.

> >-> df == Toshiba LED flashing 100 secs ? to initialise ?
> >...
> >/dev/sda1         488384532    109524 488275008   1% /mnt/sda1
> >
> >-> ls /mnt/sda1/CRGlog  -l   ==
> >-r-------- 1 root root 5296 2012-11-09 21:14 /mnt/sda1/CRGlog  <-- read-only!
> >
> >-> umount /dev/sda1
> >==> fsck - check and repair a Linux file system
> >-> fsck  /dev/sda1  ==
> >fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> >fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
> >fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sda1
> 
> Note that there simply is no fsck option to work on an
> NTFS file system.  Given that we are lucky that people
> could even figure out enough of how it works to write
> code to mount it, that isn't surprising.  Unfortunate
> though...
> 
Apparently Android is BIG. Can't they blow this M$loth
out-of-the-water?

> It isn't being mounted RO.  It is corrupted, and that
> is causing the problems you see.
> 
Well no, not if *I* can see my text that I wrote with kogi.

> The error message says that CHKDSK, on a Windows system,
> should be used to correct the problem.
> 
I'm pre-biased by extra knowledge of the particular circumstances:
Of the 4 krnl 2.6* installations: slak13, kogi, debLenny, debEtch;
the Debs are pointing to WINDOWS.
Perhaps, by the time that I got to test with the 2 Debs, I had already
bumped the bad-connector. But when I initially started, I was very
careful, and slak13 didn't mount it.

To retest if kogi can still R/W, which I expect, I need to swap one
IDE for the CD, and then I'll report back.
-------------
But since I've got a well informed user of `Gnus` from the 
diagonally oposite side of the globe, if you also use emacs, you
may be able to advise on this more difficult problem:
I've got a tested/working awk script, which does:
<deleteFromInFile allFurther TextBlocks WhichRegexMatch dFile>,
which I call by:
`gawk -f awk.code dFile inFile >  cleanedFile`
And then I check how the inFile has been cleaned of repeated 
garbage, by comparing:
`cat inFile | wc -l`
`cat cleaned | wc -l`

As you know, these days, if you accumulate 6 pages from a 
'knowledge site', by appending the http-ed text to a file,
using eg. lynx, like building a book, you get each 'page',
having the same repeated <header material>...etc.

These repeats is what the awk-script deletes.
Normal editors CAN <search & replace> all further text,
but usually only one line - max.
emacs can <RegexSearch & replace> all further text of
multi-line size/buffer.

As a previous emacs-slight-experimenter I checked
IF/HOW emacs would do it.  
There seems to be problems with multiple RE-syntax in emacs?
So I need to use the already proven awk-script.

Presently, it's very AWKward, since I need to cycle the text
between 2 files, copying the <RepeatingTextBlocks> to dFile.

Obviously, you'd rather have it like a normal editor , where
the deletions, become visible on the single file being edited.

Do you think emacs can use the awk-script to repeatedly
update the 'view' of the same text-file while it's changing,
repeatedly, like a normal editor would show the search
and replaceAll?

== TIA.

PS. when I do a `df` now the Toshiba LED starts flashing for
about 100secs, which is hardly surprising, given the 4-line USB2?
And now the LED is ON. Probably it was previously not rotating?
Oh no, it's started flashing for 30secs, and 'waiting' the command.