Re: Got warning: File system is reporting the free space as -1 clusters, not NNNNN cluster

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi!

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:35:21PM -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When I tried to do cp from other HD, parted give this warnings:
> 
> (parted) cp /dev/hdc 5 5
> Warning: File system is reporting the free space as -1 clusters, not NNNNN 
> clusters.
> Ignore/Cancel?
> 
> I did try Ignore, it came up with the same warning again, then 
> after the second Ignore, it do the copying and everything seems 
> to be Ok.
> 
> I only tried with several VFAT partition.
> 
> Any idea what happened?

Yes.  Sometimes, a file system tool or operating system might write
-1 instead of the true amount of free space.  -1 means "I don't know".
This is perfectly valid, and Parted shouldn't have warned you about it.
Parted doesn't use this information for anything (it computes the free
space on its own), so there's little risk of this bug causing any
problems.

I've fixed it now.

Thanks!
Andrew