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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