Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Formatting as vfat with specific allocation size
Date:	Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:56:56
Message-Id:	`500109BC.3040400@nileshgr.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Formatting as vfat with specific allocation size by Michael Mol

1	On 07/14/2012 10:13 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
2	> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
3	> <contact@××××××××.com> wrote:
4	>> mkfs.vfat doesn't seem to accept a allocation unit size, any other way to do
5	>> it (dosemu?)?
6	>>
7	>> My car stereo accepts only FAT32 with 4096 as allocation size.
8	>
9	> Which ebuild is your mkfs.vfat from? The manpage for mkfs.vfat from
10	> sys-fs/dosfstools suggests that you want "-s 3 -S 512". That gets you
11	> 2^3 sectors per cluster and 512-byte sectors.
12	>
13	>
14
15	Thanks, that worked. Though -s 8 and -S 512, because 512 * 8 = 4096.
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18	Nilesh Govindrajan
19	http://nileshgr.com