[ Poke Steve. ] Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org> (2016-05-11): > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > Since 416 blocks is a rather odd value, the default is used and that has > > changed. I think mtools is overzealous in checking those values and > > refusing to work. Still, it probably makes sense to use 64/32 as the > > default for smaller filesystem sizes (up to 512 MB possibly) and I'll > > prepare a version that implements this. > > Uploading this now. > > As far as I'm concerned, I consider this an aesthetic change. There is > still no guarantee that the total number of sectors is a multiple of > sectors per track. It just happens to work with the current values. Steve → we probably don't want to be hardcoding such things in so many places right? 3 calls in src:debian-installer, plus debian-cd, and maybe others? > If you want to make this robust, you'll either have to explicitly > specify matched size/sectors/heads on the command line to mkfs.msdos or > disable the bogus mtools check like everyone else does when encountering > that error. Thanks for your input and the proposed change. I think Steven mentioned (when we first diagnosed this) a possibly bogus/overzealous check on mtools side as well. You seem to agree. So, if this check is bogus, why not fix it/remove it upstream then? > Seriously, searching for that error message in your favorite search > engine will give you pages upon pages of hits, all of them describing > how to turn it off. Seriously, I read the man^Winfo page and implemented a workaround in src:debian-installer already. I filed this against dosfstools anyway to make sure our findings / intuitions were correct. Thanks for the swift replies. KiBi.
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