Package: dosfstools
Version: 2.10-1
Severity: normal

Attempting to run (as root!) 'mkfs -t vfat -F 32 /dev/ubb1' results in

  mkfs.vfat 2.10 (22 Sep 2003)
  mkfs.vfat: unable to get drive geometry for '/dev/ubb1'

Note that fdisk reports the following for this device (its a USB drive):

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/ubb

  Disk /dev/ubb: 122.9 GB, 122941341696 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
     /dev/ubb1   *           1       14946   120053713+   b  W95 FAT32

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-lac0
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages dosfstools depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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