Re: fat32 partition gone to another dimension

From: Ibrahim Mubarak (ibmub80_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/15/05

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    Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:36:24 -0800 (PST)
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    --- Maurits van Rees <maurits@vanrees.org> wrote:
    > Hello Ibrahim,
    >
    > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:47:33PM -0800, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
    [snip]
    > You can try the program 'dosfsck' from the package 'dosfstools'.
    >
    > Do try to make a backup first if possible---if you don't already have
    > one. In any case, you may want to make a bit-by-bit backup, so
    > something like:
    >
    > dd if=device_file of=some_file
    >
    > where device_file is the partition in question and some_file is a
    > file
    > on another partition where you have plenty of room.
    >
    >
    > It's not clear to me though if this is a Linux problem or a Microsoft
    > problem. You may need to solve this on the other side of the boot. In
    > that case you would need a different mailing list.

    You might be right. I just tried to use an old 40 GB drive and format
    it using windows, but I had no choice in the fs type. The only option
    is NTFS, but I want it as FAT32. All this to be able to make a backup!
    But now I am trying to format the disk under linux using mkdosfs. When
    I format it using "mkdosfs -I -v -F 32 -f 1 /dev/hdb" the size of the
    disk is limited to 1 GB. What can I do to make it take all 40 of them
    GBs?

    Thanks,
    ib

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