From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262055AbTLJBpN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:45:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262127AbTLJBpN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:45:13 -0500 Received: from 66-141-88-11.ded.swbell.net ([66.141.88.11]:35854 "EHLO lcisp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262055AbTLJBpJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:45:09 -0500 From: "Kevin Krieser" To: Subject: RE: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:45:12 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <3FD65CCA.3000408@triphoenix.de> Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.