fsck_msdosfs failing

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 18/01/2008, Ben Williams <ben at iugo.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a problem with fsck_msdosfs. My FAT32 drive came up with errors
> after a power-failure-induced reboot, and recommended that I run
> fsck_msdosfs manually. However, fsck_msdosfs fails:
>
> # fsck_msdosfs /dev/ad3s1
> ** /dev/ad3s1
> ** Phase 1 - Read and Compare FATs
> No space for FAT (Cannot allocate memory)#
>
> I've tried googling for it and I can't find anything other than a bug
> being mentioned/filed for netbsd which is obviously related, but no fix
> was forthcoming.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how I can proceed?

Are you still in single user mode at this point?

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