From: Dennis Bliefernicht <news.REMOVEME@triphoenix.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:37:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD65CCA.3000408@triphoenix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10Zjf-TI-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
Greg KH wrote:
> I just bought a new USB/Firewire external drive. It comes pre-formatted
> as FAT16 (or so shows fdisk) as one big 80Gb partition. Unfortunately,
> Linux can't seem to mount this partition, and I get the following dmesg
> output when trying to mount the partition:
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
Well, according to my sources FAT16 cannot sustain any partition larger
than 2GiB, so 80GiB is probably a lot more than it can handle. Anyway,
sdb1 is lacking any type of header and sdb containt something, but not a
FAT header afaik. So probably theres just a partition table entry but
not formatted.
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-09 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <10Zjf-TI-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-12-09 23:37 ` Dennis Bliefernicht [this message]
2003-12-10 1:45 ` very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11 Kevin Krieser
2003-12-11 6:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-09 23:03 Greg KH
2003-12-10 9:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-12-10 12:49 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-12-11 6:49 ` Greg KH
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