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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:03:33PM -0800, 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. > > 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. Good. * fat16_sdb1: this is all zeros. No filesystem at all, which explains why it won't mount. * fat16_mbr: nothing wrong here Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System fat16_mbr1 63 156360644 156360582 6 FAT16 fat16_mbr2 0 - 0 0 Empty fat16_mbr3 0 - 0 0 Empty fat16_mbr4 0 - 0 0 Empty * fat16_sdb: There is a little bit of data here - don't know what it is. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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