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  • 1.  win95FAT32 file system found on on vmfs

    Posted Oct 04, 2018 01:37 PM

    win95FAT32 file system found on on vmfs  datastore  all of a certain , Please  help  me  with the reason



  • 2.  RE: win95FAT32 file system found on on vmfs

    Posted Oct 04, 2018 07:01 PM

    Some details would be helpful, e.g.

    • the output of partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/<DeviceName>
    • is it a local, or shared VMFS datastore?
    • did another OS (other than ESXi) have access to the LUN/disk?

    André



  • 3.  RE: win95FAT32 file system found on on vmfs

    Posted Oct 05, 2018 06:10 AM

    Its  a  Share  VMfs datastore

    total space  2TB .



  • 4.  RE: win95FAT32 file system found on on vmfs

    Posted Oct 05, 2018 12:10 PM

    You really need to provide some details.
    We do not even know wether the whole volume now apparently is fat32 formatted or if there is only a vmdk that is fat32 formatted.
    Thats why we need to know the partitiontable of the disk that contains the VMFS-volume.
    If you want to know wether this can be reverted we need to see the partitiontable AND the output of the command:
    dd if=/dev/disks<vmfs-partition> bs=1M count=2 | hexdump -C > /tmp/vmfs-start.bin
    Given the data we have now we have to assume the reason for this is either a silly user mistake or sabotage.