Well, the point was that *I* didn't format it. It came out of the box (from Seagate) formatted that way.
It's really a none issue for me now - I gave up and reformatted the disk with different filesystem types :-) (Something I would have done early, but moving 200 Gb of data around was slightly fiddly on my current machine). However, I was slightly surprised that it worked with Edgy Eft (and had worked with my previous Gentoo install for quite a long time), and stopped working with Feisty Fawn - that's why I raised the issue. The fact that one manufacturer (who, it could be argued, should know better) is shipping disks with a "bogus" sector size is probably slightly worrying... on the other hand, they are shipping them, and users will plug them in and find that Linux doesn't see the disk whereas Windows does, and say "Linux doesn't recognise my hard disk". (vol_id is being safely paranoid, but I wonder if the check could be relaxed a little, regardless of what the spec says.) For what it's worth, blkid did report the information correctly. Anyway, as I said, I have fixed the problem locally by other means, so it no longer affects me. Phil -- vol_id: does not recognise FAT* partitions with sector size 8192 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147807 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
