Re: FAT 32 mkdosfs problem

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:15:20PM -0500, Tom Oehser wrote:
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> I do it like this:
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> mkdosfs -v -F32 /dev/hda1

Maybe I have the syntax wrong.=20

I tried it your way and scandisk reported that I had the amount of
free space reported incorrectly.

[root@teckla root]# fsck /dev/hda1
fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN
Warning: FAT32 support is still ALPHA.
Free cluster summary wrong (42818 vs. really 42817)
1) Correct
2) Don't correct
?



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> Assuming your dd didn't screw it up, try that way...


The dd line seems to make things worse. I did find that I can restore
operation by booting to the W98 rescue disk and running "sys c:"

I'll keep mucking with it.

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> -Tom
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> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Charles Curley wrote:
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> > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:05:36 -0700
> > From: Charles Curley <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] FAT 32 mkdosfs problem
> >
> > I just tried putting a FAT 32 file system on a ~ 3 GB partition using
> > tomsrtbt 2.0.103, mkdosfs 0.4.1, September 1998. I then restored the
> > old boot record:
> >
> > echo formatting /dev/hda1
> > mkdosfs $blockcheck -F 32 /dev/hda1
> > # restore FAT boot sector.
> > dd if=3Ddev.hda1 of=3D/dev/hda1 bs=3D512 count=3D1
> >
> > I then mounted the partition to see what was there, and the old root
> > directory appeared to be there. Scandisk reported numerous errors,
> > mostly the root directory files being shorter than the directory entry
> > indicated.
> >
> > It looks like the verion of mkdosfs on Fedora Core 1 (mkdosfs 2.8 (28
> > Feb 2001)) will do the job correctly.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
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