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I have WD external hdd (80GB) formatted with fat32. I was using this hdd to transfer the data from computer A (LINUX, RH9) to computer B (Win7).

I was keep copying and deleting the data in the WD hdd during the data transfer because the amount to transfer is more than 300GB.

After doing this several times (and the WD drive was emptied), comp. A said the disk is full. I checked using 'df' and it was really full but 'ls -la' shows that there is no data in it.

I checked it in comp. B, and it showed empty. I tried to format in comp. A using 'mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/xxx# (block#)', but showed an error message like below.

'Warning: block count mismatch: found 78xxxxx but assuming 0'.

I found a similar situation in this forum metioning 'possible damaged linux kernel (not exactly same expression though)', so I re-installed linux in comp. A, but the problem was not solved.

1. why the disk info. is showed differently in linux and win7
2. why I cannot format it

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