On 2008-12-30, Thilo Pfennig <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a FAT32 disk on wd1i as a disk for interchange with other > computers. On every bootup I get the message "No space for FAT (Cannot > allocate memory)" and then get into a shell where I should check > manually.
This is coming from fsck_msdos. Either one of NumClusters, FATsecs or BytesPerSec stored in the bootblock of the partition is mangled, or it's just too big a partition for fsck_msdos to handle in the available memory. Build fsck_msdos with debugging symbols and run it under gdb, set a breakpoint after readboot() is called in check.c (line 90 or so should be ok), then when it's triggered, print boot. > But I can mount the disk without any problem. Unless you do it manually, there won't be an fsck then.
