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JElchison / format-udf

Bash script to format a block device (hard drive or Flash drive) in UDF. The output is a drive that can be used for reading/writing across multiple operating system families: Windows, macOS, and Linux. This script should be capable of running in macOS or in Linux.
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Wiki: UDF filesystem check tools? #14

Closed GreatEmerald closed 8 years ago

GreatEmerald commented 9 years ago

This may be a bit out of scope for this project, but I'm thinking that a place documenting the available UDF fsck tools would be nice. One of the main problems why UDF isn't used more on Linux is the lack of a filesystem check tool; the one provided by udf-tools is basically /bin/true.

There's apparently also udf_test from something called Philips UDF Conformance Tool; but I can't actually find it and I'm not sure if it actually fixes problems, or just finds them. Looking at Google results, the last release of it might have been in 2007, which would mean it would cover all UDF revisions.

I see that Windows does have the ability to check UDF volumes; in fact, it seems that my Win10 installation claims to have repaired the volume I created with format-udf, even if I didn't actually put any files on it. I wonder what it changes... (Hopefully not the MBR?)

Apparently there's also a check tool for Solaris, which perhaps could be ported to Linux too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udftools/+bug/384156#3

Does OS X have a UDF check tool to begin with?

JElchison commented 8 years ago

Hi @GreatEmerald, thanks for the post! Yes, I think think is a great topic for a wiki page. I've started one with placeholders here. Would you like the honors of kicking it off? Even a copy/paste from what you posted above would be great.

Thanks!

GreatEmerald commented 8 years ago

Done. Added as much info as I could gather.

JElchison commented 8 years ago

Looks great. Many thanks, @GreatEmerald!

unxed commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/pali/udftools