From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263205AbTLIXho (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:37:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263345AbTLIXho (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:37:44 -0500 Received: from dd1802.kasserver.com ([81.209.148.61]:56199 "EHLO dd1802.kasserver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263205AbTLIXhn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:37:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD65CCA.3000408@triphoenix.de> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:37:46 +0100 From: Dennis Bliefernicht User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11 References: <10Zjf-TI-11@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <10Zjf-TI-11@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.