Problem with HD

[dolby]

just a while ago a sudden drop in power supply happened while i was downloading a linux distro dvd with azureus & the pc restarted on its own. when i tried to open azureus again i got a read file error. i tried rechecking the torrent but it just kept happening again & again. when i browsed the HD which by the way is a mounted fat32 drive i realised that i had no write permissions on it but i obviously did before the incident. i am using fedora core 5
what can i do? something like that has never happened before..

[dolby]

fstab gives permissions to users

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/e vfat users,rw,owner,umask=000 0 0

[tebbens]

Don't let it happen again, buy a UPS !

[dolby]

funnah but not applicable right now

[tebbens]

What permissions does it have now ?
$ mount

Can you umount, then mount it again... does that work ?

Any messages about this in /var/log/messages ?

[dolby]

$ mount gives

/dev/hdb5 on /mnt/e type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=000)

permissions: drwxrwxrwx

[tebbens]

You said in your first post that you "realized you had no write permissions" on /dev/hdb5 (/mnt/e).
But mount clearly shows you do have rw permissions.

How are you testing write permissions ?

[dolby]

first of all i retried the torrent and got read error then tried to delete a file but couldnt moveto trash or anything like that. unmounting & mounting again didnt work..

[dolby]

un 19 21:12:51 localhost kernel: fat_bmap_cluster: request beyond EOF (i_pos 1214242615)
Jun 19 21:12:51 localhost kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev hdb5)

many messages of this kind in var/log/messages

[tebbens]

Can you post all related messages ?
Obviously the power failure caused major problems.

I don't know if you can repair a fat32 in Linux....anyone know ?
You may have to take it out and stick it in a Windows system to repair.

Start looking for Linux or Windows fat32 repair tools.

[dolby]

i just noticed somerthng i probably should have noticed before. those messages appear when i retry the torrent. right now all seems to work fine

[tebbens]

Now go back to my first post. :)