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Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Booting Suse 7.2 I get everytime and again a failed message on the screen. Looking for the reason I found that "fatfs bogus cluster size is " is the start of a search for a fruitless search. Linux is trying to do something with a "dev 16:41 " device.
How can I get rid of the failure message and of the bogus cluster size
1. Use a 2.2 kernel, or 2. Edit /usr/src/linux/fs/fat/inode.c and delete the line that prints the message, then recompile, or 3. Don't mount any vfat filesystems during boot.
(whatever that may be ;-))
You can safely ignore the message. The explanation (from inode.c) is given below. JDL * The DOS3 partition size limit is *not* 32M as many people think. * Instead, it is 64K sectors (with the usual sector size being * 512 bytes, leading to a 32M limit). * * DOS 3 partition managers got around this problem by faking a * larger sector size, ie treating multiple physical sectors as * a single logical sector. * * We can accommodate this scheme by adjusting our cluster size, * fat_start, and data_start by an appropriate value.