From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262094AbTLIXGn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:06:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263345AbTLIXGn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:06:43 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:11683 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262094AbTLIXE7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:04:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:03:33 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11 Message-ID: <20031209230333.GA1507@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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