Re: FAT16, 512k cluster size

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:52:58AM -0400, Justin Blumenthal wrote:
> (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).

Hmmm, looks like Parted doesn't deal with FAT12 gracefully.  (That's
a SMALL partition!)  Parted doesn't support FAT12.

Thanks for letting me know!
Andrew