Bug#299819: dosfstools: mkfs.vfat: unable to get drive geometry for '/dev/ubb1'

2013-06-29 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: dosfstools Followup-For: Bug #299819 Hello, since like 3.0 there is no disk geometry on Linux anymore. Linux just ignores gemoetry on any drive that goes through SCSI emulation and uses LBA gemotery. If your disk is too small and you care about geometry you are out of luck. You need ano

Bug#299819: dosfstools: mkfs.vfat: unable to get drive geometry for '/dev/ubb1'

2005-03-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
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