Dear all,
don't ask why but I have to prepare a disk with FAT32.
The harddisk is rather large (160GB) and it should be put in some
slices of about 16GB, I decided to make use of FAT32 and mount it as
vfat afterwards. Working with cfdisk provides the results as expected
-- at least, cfdisk consistently reports so.
However, when creating a file system on it by
mkfs.msdos -F 32 -n lpr -v -v -v /dev/hdd1
The log is:
mkfs.msdos 2.10 (22 Sep 2003)
Boot jump code is eb 58
Using 32 reserved sectors
163846840 sectors for FAT+data, starting with 32 sectors/cluster
Trying with 32 sectors/cluster:
FAT12: #clu=5119276, fatlen=14998, maxclu=4080, limit=4080
FAT12: too much clusters
FAT16: #clu=5118964, fatlen=19996, maxclu=65520, limit=65520
FAT16: too much clusters
FAT16: would be misdetected as FAT12
FAT32: #clu=5117714, fatlen=39983, maxclu=5117824, limit=268435440
Using sector 6 as backup boot sector (0 = none)
/dev/hdd1 has 255 heads and 63 sectors per track,
logical sector size is 512,
using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 163846872 sectors;
file system has 2 32-bit FATs and 32 sectors per cluster.
FAT size is 39983 sectors, and provides 5117714 clusters.
Volume ID is 3fa02bee, volume label lpr .
Mounting with
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /mnt_tmp
and the disk-size reports
/dev/hdd1 79G 16K 79G 1% /mnt_tmp
*** ***
Which is completely wrong, because
fdisk -l /dev/hdd
results in
Disk /dev/hdd: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 1992 16000708+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdd2 10200 19929 78156225 7 HPFS/NTFS
One difference I realized is the plus sign after 16000708 -- has this
any special meaning?
Thanks for any help!
wbr,
Lukas
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