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Date:      Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:58:09 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can not mount a large FAT32 filesystem
Message-ID:  <4338A731.9070003@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050927014825.6378E1BB0B@citi.umich.edu>
References:  <20050927014825.6378E1BB0B@citi.umich.edu>

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Jim Rees wrote:
>   Maybe a quick fsck_msdos would do the trick..
> 
> I doubt it.  The message implies a problem with the partition table, not the
> file system.  I suspect it's a geometry problem, especially since the CHS
> values don't match the LBA.


Agreed - however I've seen errors like this (not exactly the same) for 
similar problems, that don't quite tell you what's really going on.

Eric


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