Re: [bugreport] vfat: Unmountable FAT32 Partition

From: Kurt Roeckx (Q@ping.be)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 11:52:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:10:15AM +0100, Andreas Dietrich wrote:
>
> # mount -o debug -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/DOS_hda3
> fatfs: bogus cluster size
>
>
> The other partitions give no trouble at all. I tried 3.2.14 and
> several 2.3 releases up to 2.3.99-pre1.

I've had the same problem. I mailed this to the same person months ago.
Didn't get any reply. I just used a smaller partition.

The problem is that the clustersize is 4K for partitions upto 8 GB, then
it changes to 8K I think, which linux doesn't seem to allow.

Kurt

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