Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:03:33 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11 |
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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,
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