From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:03:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031209230333.GA1507@kroah.com> (raw)
Hi all,
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.
Now before I blow it away and put a sane filesystem on this disk, I
saved off the MBR and the initial portion of the partitions if anyone
wants to poke around and take a look at it. I'll keep the filesystem
as-is for a few days if anyone wants me to get any more data from it.
The files are:
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/fat16_mbr.gz
(generated by: 'dd if=/udev/sdb count=1 bs=512 > fat16_mbr')
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/fat16_sdb.gz
(generated by: 'dd if=/udev/sdb count=1000 bs=512 > fat16_sdb')
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/fat16_sdb1.gz
(generated by: 'dd if=/udev/sdb count=1000 bs=512 > fat16_sdb1')
Oh, 2.4.23 also can't seem to read it, so it doesn't look like this is a
regression or anything.
thanks,
greg k-h
next reply other threads:[~2003-12-09 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-09 23:03 Greg KH [this message]
2003-12-10 9:34 ` very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11 Andries Brouwer
2003-12-10 12:49 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-12-11 6:49 ` Greg KH
[not found] <10Zjf-TI-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-12-09 23:37 ` Dennis Bliefernicht
2003-12-10 1:45 ` Kevin Krieser
2003-12-11 6:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
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