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When trying to installing Syslinux on a FAT32 drive formatted using Ridgecrop's Large FAT32 formatting tool [1], the installer will bail due to the minfatsize check, as there is an extra sector being used. This fix addresses that. [1] http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm -------------- next part --------------

> Hi Ady, > > On 2016.02.25 02:08, Ady via Syslinux wrote: > > There is an "extra" sector, in comparison to... what exactly? > > Sorry if I wasn't clear. I think I implied that the Large FAT32 fat size > had an extra sector compared to minfatsize, when of course I meant the > opposite (the Large FAT32 has one less sector than the minfatsize > computed by the unpatched code, hence the check fails). The additional > sector I was talking about is from the (unpatched) minfats...

...r system, it would mean > that you only have "binary" packages of SYSLINUX and/or EXTLINUX (and > the bootloader has not been yet installed). Bingo. I downloaded the actual upstream official archives, as you suggested, looked under bios/core, it all is there. > FWIW, the VBR in FAT32 doesn't have to be 512 bytes; FAT32 has the > possibility to use more than one sector for boot purposes. In fact, > Microsoft's FAT32 VBR uses at least 3 sectors (IIRC, typically, 32 > sectors) I did not know that. I just finished writing a go-lang library implementation of fat32...

I know syslinux supports FAT16 and works very well, but how about FAT32? Does syslinux support FAT32? If so, which version? eg., 3.11 and above Thanks!

Hi Ady, On 2016.02.25 02:08, Ady via Syslinux wrote: > There is an "extra" sector, in comparison to... what exactly? Sorry if I wasn't clear. I think I implied that the Large FAT32 fat size had an extra sector compared to minfatsize, when of course I meant the opposite (the Large FAT32 has one less sector than the minfatsize computed by the unpatched code, hence the check fails). The additional sector I was talking about is from the (unpatched) minfatsize variable comput...

Hi, I am running rsync on MacOS 10.3 and I want to transfer files to a linux machine, which has linux partitions and fat32 partitions. Transfering the files to the linux partition works without problems, but if I transfer them to the fat32 partition, files are ignored if all characters in the file name are UPPER CASE. - The files which rsync should transfer do not exist in the target directory. Thus its not a problem...

My problem is that whenever I try to copy a large file from a client machine to a fat32 partition (ext3 works fine) mounted under samba, the host linux machine will lock up completely. I can, however, copy small files to the fat32 partition just fine (ie. 1 KB to 1 MB size file), it's only when I copy files that are about 200 MB and larger, that the computer will lockup. NAT st...

Hi @all! I tested what happens with a file which is saved at a FAT32 partition and then this partition is converted to NTFS. So first I transfered the file with rsync from the FAT32 partition to my Linux /home folder. Then I converted the FAT32 partition to NTFS. After the convertation I transfered the file again to see what has changed (amount of data). I was surpr...

...to customers, trying out ideas, and generally all the other benefits that come from having a completely portable environment. However, the 168Mb of files that make up my Instant Rails (with extra gems) is consuming 750Mb of space on my USB key. The reason is simple enough; the USB is formatted as FAT32, and having lots of small files stored on a FAT32 partition is a great way to burn your disc space quickly. Unfortunately, I don''t seem to be able to reformat the USB key as anything other than FAT or FAT32, and I''m not sure I''d want to because FAT/FAT32 is really the on...

hello, I plan to use rsync for backing up my data to a FAT32 USB disk. I'm running the last Mandriva linux 2006 and my filesystem is ext8 using UFT-8 charset. I run into a problem with some of my folders that have full caps names on the ext3 disk (/home/foo/BAR/ for example). When rsync creates the folder on the USB disk, it doesn't create /hom...

Hi, I have a problem backing up my music collection, that is stored on a fat32 formated hard drive to my ext3 formated backup drive (ext3 to ext3 works like a charm :) ). The problem is, that rsync always transfers all of the files and not only the one that were changed/added. I know of the limitations fat32 has but I can't find the correct options to run the backup....

Hi, I am not an engineer or linux expert but I have been using syslinux to boot live disk filesets (extracted from iso's) residing on fat32 and NTFS volumes. In FAT32 there has been no problem going with larger cluster sizes up to the nominal maximum of 64K however, with NTFS it has not been possible to exceed the cluster size of 4096. With NTFS formatted using clusters of 8192 or larger, upon boot apparently the syslinux bootsector...

Hi, I have been using rsync for over ten years. Thank you! It is a great tool. Recently I had the misfortune to have to use it to sync files to a USB stick that is for a platform that only supports FAT32. After missing the point a few times and having it copy some of the same directories and files needlessly I saw the timestamps on the source files (in reasonable filesystems like JFS, XFS, etc.) were a few seconds different from those on the VFAT filesystem on the USB check. Looking around the net...

Hi... I decided to delete my fat32 partition (sda1, with win2k on it). I did that with fdisk and added a linux partition, then formated it with "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1" ... Everything seemed to work fine... I can even mount it with "mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt" ... but there seem to be some fat32 rubbish left be...

...s the entries in the root-directory > Ds is the size of a entry (=32 bytes) > (...) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Now, even though this is a FAT16 computation, I think I was able to work > out how Tom Thornhill of Ridgecrop got his FAT32 equivalent, which was > probably as follows: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Assume: > To is the total amount of sectors, > Fo is the amount of free sectors for data > Fs is the size of one FAT in sectors > Cs is the cluster si...

...yslinux's code, we should at least test the values that are around or close to the limits between FAT12/16/32. For simplicity, I'll give basic examples (which I have not truly analyzed; developers could / should test relevant code). Example A: Volume_Total_Sectors: 66'463 FAT type: FAT32 Bytes_per_sector: 512 Sectors_per_Cluster: 1 Sectors_per_FAT: 511 ---> this value should _not_ be accepted as valid minfatsize; 512 should be OK. Example B: Volume_Total_Sectors: 4'187'104 FAT type: FAT32 Bytes_per_sector: 512 Sectors_per_Cluster: 64 Sectors_per_FAT: 511 ---> this v...

I have a question regarding moving Wine's C:/ drive to another file system. My hard drive is currently partitioned into 3 primaries. I have a NTFS partition that Windows is on, a Ext4 with Ubuntu, and a third, larger, FAT32 partition that I use to hold cross-OS data (music, pictures, documents ect). I have had infinite difficulty getting wine to run apps that I installed (through wine) to my FAT32 partition. Every time I try to run an app, it throws an error "The program <appname> has encountered a serious...

I am trying to transfer files between two OSX machines using a FAT32 formatted flash drive. I am transferring a "big" directory (7G). Basically I want to sync everyday my home and work computers for some directories. I tried many possible rsyncs (original supplied, fink 3.0.5/3.0.4 macports 3.0.5, rsync-2.6.3+hfsmode-1.2b2, 3.0.6+fileflags+crtimes) What...

...t; rest of ldlinux.sys, checks integrity then continues. > So... VBR (i.e. first 512 bytes of ldlinux.bin) contains code that knows to > find and load first sector of ldlinux.sys. That in turn knows how to find > the rest of ldlinux.sys, and loads that. ldlinux.sys itself understands > fat32 well enough to find the rest of its modules, syslinux.cfg, etc. Yep. >> Actually, only the first sector of ldlinux.sys, computed after >> ldlinux.sys is copied and patched into the VBR by the installer. The >> block map is in ldlinux.sys. >> >> >> At least one...

I am trying to mount a FAT32 partition in CentOS. I'm following the instructions on this page: http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/14/1.php This is the line I put into /etc/fstab /dev/hda /mnt/windows vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0 And this is the error I get: [root at localhost mnt...