Sorry for the OT, but I am really stumped on this one. I was attempting
to back up a win95 FAT32 partition by doing a 'tar -cvf' on it and storing
the tar file on another disk. I had some problems as the tar file would
exceed 2GB and then tar would die telling me that the archive was too big
to continue (even though there was 15GB still available on the device
where the archive was being written). [I figure that the 2GB things was
due to the fact that it was a 2.2.14 kernel that must not have supported a
file size above 2GB. This seems less important right now.]
Some how the cluster size on the FAT32 parition got changed to 0. The
partition is still intact. I haven't changed the parition type, formated,
reformated or any of the above. Nothing has been written to the partition
and the parition itself still shows to be intact. I can even boot from
the drive (using lilo on the MBR) as long as I don't boot from that
parition (partition 1, on my machine /dev/hda1 occupying sec 1-511).
Roughly a 4GB partition.
How do I get the cluster size set back to what it was (the standard
win95 FAT32 size) or alternatively, get the data off of that partition. I
haven't had any luck attempting to mount it under linux. I have tried
dosfsck, fsck.vfat/fsck.msdos, partition magic 4.0, revival, PQDI, Norton
Disk Doctor (old Dos version). I haven't allowed anything to write to the
disk. I have only attempted reads. The data is important or I would just
back up the rest of the disk and repartition it.
Has anyone come across this before? Any ideas?
Mount returns:
fatfs:bogus cluster size
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
dosfsck returns:
dosfsck 2.2, 06JUL1999, FAT32, LFN
Logical sector size is zero.
I realize that this is way off topic. Any help or even where to look
would be appreciated. I am really out on a limb on this one.
Big Thanks in Advance to anyone and everyone.
James
-- James Fowler jamesf@sequoia.net ICQ: 81445515"Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies non-comformity; and non-comformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyality -- so obviously thinking must be stopped" [Call to Greatness, 1954] -- Adlai Stephenson
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