FAT16, 512k cluster size

[Justin Blumenthal]

progeny:/home/alpha# uname -a
Linux progeny 2.4.2 #1 Thu May 3 14:30:48 EST 2001
i686 unknown
progeny:/home/alpha# 
progeny:/home/alpha# parted /dev/hdc
GNU Parted 1.4.14
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hdc
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdc is
3736/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.  You
should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this
program.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-29311.734 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031   8032.500  primary   linux-swap  
3      19155.630  19171.318  primary   FAT         
2      27243.040  29306.074  primary   FAT         boot, lba
(parted) check 3
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.4.14), and the following
message:

There are no possible configurations for this FAT type.
Ignore Cancel ? ignore
Warning: File system doesn't have expected sizes for Windows to likeit.
Cluster size is 0k (536892055k expected); number of clusters is31847
(1074315248 expected); size of FATs is 125 sectors (1
expected).
Ignore Cancel ? ignore
(parted) quit
progeny:/home/alpha# fdisk /dev/hdc

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3736.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1             1      1024   8225248+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2   *      3474      3736   2112547+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc3          2443      2444     16065    4  FAT16 <32M

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Command (m for help): quit

progeny:/home/alpha# cfdisk /dev/hdc

                            cfdisk 2.10o

                        Disk Drive: /dev/hdc
                      Size: 30735581184 bytes
        Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 3736

   Name      Flags    Part Type FS Type       [Label]      Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------
   hdc1                Primary  Linux ext2                   8422.69
Pri/Log  Free Space                  11663.45   hdc3
Primary  FAT16 <32M    [FATMEDIA]       16.46
Pri/Log  Free Space                   8463.82   hdc2      Boot
Primary  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)            2163.25


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I hope this is useful.
-justin
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