can not mount a large FAT32 filesystem

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Mon Sep 26 18:58:38 PDT 2005


Jim Rees wrote:
>   Maybe a quick fsck_msdos would do the trick..
> 
> I doubt it.  The message implies a problem with the partition table, not the
> file system.  I suspect it's a geometry problem, especially since the CHS
> values don't match the LBA.


Agreed - however I've seen errors like this (not exactly the same) for 
similar problems, that don't quite tell you what's really going on.

Eric


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