On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Martin Bogomolni wrote:

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=63 (kill trk0)
> fdisk the system to make a 16MiB partition on /dev/hda1, filesystem type 0x0b
> mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda1

this is the problem: 16MiB FAT32 partitions are not allowed -- the minimal
partition size for FAT32 is 64*1024*512 (minus a bit) =~ 32MiB, below that
it's nonsensical.

If mkdosfs allows you to create them then that's a bug in mkdosfs.

Bart



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