Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kevin Krieser" <> | Subject | RE: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11 | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:45:12 -0600 |
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Actually, there is an extension to 4GB that NT used in the 4.0 days (maybe earlier?).
Don't know if the Linux driver supports it.
-----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Dennis Bliefernicht Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:38 PM To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11
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.
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