[crochet, wandboard] newfs_msdos: 12762 clusters too few clusters for FAT32, need 65525

[Tom Everett]

Hello Boris.  I believe that is my bug you've found.  are you planning to
submit a patch?



On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Boris Samorodov <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Using crochet to create an image for wandboard:
> -----
> [...]
> Creating a 3900MB raw disk image in:
>
> /home/bsam/crochet-freebsd-master/work/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-IMX6-r266491.img
> Partitioning the raw disk image at среда, 21 мая 2014 г. 13:24:15 (SAMT)
> gpart create -s MBR md1
> md1 created
> Installing U-Boot to /dev/md1
> 582+0 records in
> 582+0 records out
> 297984 bytes transferred in 6.019639 secs (49502 bytes/sec)
> Creating a 50m FAT partition at среда, 21 мая 2014 г. 13:24:21 (SAMT)
> with start block 16384 and label BOOT
> active set on md1s1
> newfs_msdos: 12762 clusters too few clusters for FAT32, need 65525
> -----
>
> The line from board/Wandboard/setup.sh "disk_fat_create 50m 32 16384"
> uses FA32 and fails. After I change the line to "disk_fat_create 50m 16
> 16384" (use FAT16) the command succeeds.
>
> This change seems to be in par with code at lib/disk.sh:
> -----
>     _FAT_TYPE=$2
>     if [ -z "${_FAT_TYPE}" -o \( "${_FAT_TYPE}" = "-1" \) ]; then
>         case $1 in
>             *k | [1-9]m | 1[0-6]m) _FAT_TYPE=12
>                 ;;
>             *m) _FAT_TYPE=16
>                 ;;
>             *g) _FAT_TYPE=32
>                 ;;
>         esac
> -----
>
> I.e. if a partition is set in megabytes, use FAT16.
>
> --
> WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
> FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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