Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:03:31 +0200 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: Block size problem |
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> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > my friend has a following problem: He has FAT filesystem on MO disk > > and computer with SCSI drive reading MO disk. The problem is that > > smallest blocksize supported by the driver is larger than 512 bytes > > which FAT needs. What is the right solution? > > AFAIK, since originally FAT driver also isn't supporting blocksize > smaller than device sector size, I think he should use blocksize > larger than device sector size. > > for example, > > $ mkdosfs -S 2048 /dev/xxx Sadly that isn't a choice because disks are created by EWSD phone exchange...
> > Another solution I though about is creating loopback directly to > > device but loopback device supports only blocksize same as > > underlying device... So do you think it would be nice/useful if > > loopback device supported any blocksize? > > Since it isn't the problem of only FAT, I think it would be useful.
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