Re: Error: The FATs aren't big enough to describe all clusters!

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0700, Robert Rosenbaum wrote:
> (parted) check 1
> Error: The FATs aren't big enough to describe all
> clusters!  Each FAT is 19076 sectors.  There
> are 2442286 clusters, which would require each FAT to
> be 19081 sectors.  This is REALLY weird.
> You might want to write us an email:
> address@hidden
> It is the active partition on the boot disk.  The
> partition was formatted for Windows 98, and windows 98
> runs fine on it.  I subsequently installed Windows
> 2000 on the same filesystem, and I can boot both OS's
> using the W2K boot loader.

Fascinating!

Could you run chkdsk in Windows?  It should give some statistics.
Could you cut&paste...?

> Curious thing...  using parted to toggle the LBA flag
> did not work.  It actually toggled the boot flag
> instead.

Strange.  You're using and old version... could be a bug...?
Don't remember such a bug, and nothing in the changelogs...

Thanks!
Andrew