fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

[Michael Ross]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:01:41 +0200, Robert Bonomi  
<bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:


> I haven't had occasion to dissect a copy of format in years, I don't know
> if it still defaults to one write attemptto every sector on the disk.



"By default in Windows Vista, the format command writes zeros to the whole  
disk when a full format is performed."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941961/en-us


With the addition of the "passes"-switch, this seems to imply "one write  
attempt per sector", but I didn't find any explicit statement to that  
accord.