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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Formatting as vfat with specific allocation size
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:45:23
Message-Id: CA+czFiBjX+XUuoq9EzpRyP68jivj5RLD+R86X5b1GN+CHKO-vA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Formatting as vfat with specific allocation size by Nilesh Govindrajan
1 On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
2 <contact@××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > mkfs.vfat doesn't seem to accept a allocation unit size, any other way to do
4 > it (dosemu?)?
5 >
6 > My car stereo accepts only FAT32 with 4096 as allocation size.
7
8 Which ebuild is your mkfs.vfat from? The manpage for mkfs.vfat from
9 sys-fs/dosfstools suggests that you want "-s 3 -S 512". That gets you
10 2^3 sectors per cluster and 512-byte sectors.
11
12
13 --
14 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-user] Formatting as vfat with specific allocation size Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@××××××××.com>