Re: fat-16

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:16:25PM +0000, Pavel Bushuk wrote:
> I have a problem with fat-16, and I don't understand what's happening.
> Please someone make things clear for me...

You have a FAT file system that "doesn't make any sense" to Parted
(nor to me!)

> I'm using parted 1.15

Do you mean 1.4.15?

> "parted /dev/hda print" gives......
> 
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-12949.453 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> 1     0.031      415.744     primary   FAT          boot
> 2     2047.346   4047.626    extended              
> 5     2047.377   4047.626    logical   FAT         
> 
> and then "parted /dev/hda resize 5 2047.377 3000.000" gives ....
> 
> Error: The FATs aren't big enough to describe all clusters!  Each FAT is 
> 250 sectors.
> There are 63999 clusters, which would require each FAT to be 251 
> sectors.  This is REALLY
> weird.  You might want to write us an email: address@hidden

Could you please run "chkdsk" in Windows, and send in "all the
numbers"?

Thanks,
Andrew