Re: mkdosfs -C ...

[Klaus <klaus.doering999@gmail.com>]

On 04/06/13 07:15, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 03 iun 13, 15:06:05, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > mkdosfs fails in this case.
> >
> > =============
> > root@dalton:/media/9D7C-BB83# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 257 MB, 257425408 bytes
> > 6 heads, 26 sectors/track, 3222 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 156 * 512 = 79872 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x8878a0ad
> >
> >     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1              14        3223      250368    6  FAT16
> > root@dalton:/media/9D7C-BB83# mount | grep sdb
> > /dev/sdb1 on /media/9D7C-BB83 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush)
> > root@dalton:/media/9D7C-BB83# mkdosfs -v -C /media/9D7C-BB83/FatFile  25
> > mkdosfs 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010)
> > mkdosfs: unable to create /media/9D7C-BB83/FatFile
>
> I get a different error with the version in unstable:
>
> # mkdosfs -v -C FatFile 25
> mkdosfs 3.0.16 (01 Mar 2013)
> mkdosfs: Too few blocks for viable file system
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

Increase block count a little, and hey presto:

$ sudo mkdosfs -v -C FatFile2 1024
mkdosfs 3.0.16 (01 Mar 2013)
FatFile2 has 64 heads and 32 sectors per track,
logical sector size is 512,
using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 2048 sectors;
file system has 2 12-bit FATs and 4 sectors per cluster.
FAT size is 2 sectors, and provides 502 clusters.
There is 1 reserved sector.
Root directory contains 512 slots and uses 32 sectors.
Volume ID is fa11e184, no volume label.


--
Klaus