Specifying custom number of heads and sectors per track is now possible
via new mkfs.fat's -g option available since dosfstools 4.2.
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So I fixed the issue I was seeing without these patches and I don't care
for them anymore, however they do implement a missing feature to force
the number of heads and sectors per track, which might be useful to
someone.
We can keep this bug open or close it and reopen if it turns out to be
useful
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Doesn't allow forcing file systems to 255 heads
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and this doesn't work:
sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt; for f in /mnt2/*; do j=`basename $f`; sudo
rm /mnt/$j; sudo cp -a /mnt2/$j /mnt; done; sudo umount /mnt
gah
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Doesn't allow forcing file systems to 255 heads
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This doesn't work either:
sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt; for f in /mnt2/*; do j=`basename $f`; sudo
mcopy -o -i /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt2/$j ::$j; done; sudo umount /mnt
but this does:
sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt; sudo rm /mnt/*; for f in /mnt2/*; do
j=`basename $f`; sudo mcopy -o
Ok, this doesn't work:
sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt; sudo cp -a /mnt2/* /mnt; sudo umount /mnt
but this does:
sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt; sudo rm /mnt/*; sudo cp -a /mnt2/* /mnt;
sudo umount /mnt
The files are created by mcopy, so I suspect it's the true culprit.
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Doesn't all
So with Ubuntu's image losetup-ed and kpart -ax-ed:
sudo file -s /dev/mapper/loop0p1
/dev/mapper/loop0p1: x86 boot sector, mkdosfs boot message display, code
offset 0x58, OEM-ID " mkdosfs", Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 64, sectors
144522 (volumes > 32 MB) , FAT (32 bit), sectors/FAT 1112, serial n
