On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 07:46:50PM -0400, Eric Wood wrote: > I recently installed Ubuntu on a SSD with logical/physical sector size > of 4096/4096. Everything works fine; however, just for curiosity I did > a check on the efi partition 500MB, formatted as FAT32. > > I got the following error messages: (See image).
We need an error from parted in order to diagnose problems, or a stacktrace from libparted if something crashes. > This does not happen on a usb drive with 512 byte sectors. > > Everything looks fine when I check with fsck.fat: > > fsck.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) > Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem > Boot sector contents: > System ID "mkfs.fat" > Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk) > 4096 bytes per logical sector > 4096 bytes per cluster > 32 reserved sectors > First FAT starts at byte 131072 (sector 32) > 2 FATs, 32 bit entries > 512000 bytes per FAT (= 125 sectors) > Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size) > Data area starts at byte 1155072 (sector 282) > 127718 data clusters (523132928 bytes) > 63 sectors/track, 255 heads > 2048 hidden sectors > 128000 sectors total > Checking for unused clusters. > Checking free cluster summary. > /dev/sda1: 11 files, 1997/127718 clusters > > > Here is the output you requested from parted: > > > Model: Unknown (unknown) > Disk /dev/sda1: 524MB > Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B > Partition Table: loop > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size File system Flags > 1 0.00B 524MB 524MB fat32 > > Model: Unknown (unknown) > Disk /dev/sda1: 128000s > Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B > Partition Table: loop > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size File system Flags > 1 0s 127999s 128000s fat32 > > Model: Unknown (unknown) > Disk /dev/sda1: 55,197,1 > Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B > BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 55,255,9. Each cylinder is 9400kB. > Partition Table: loop > Disk Flags: > > Thanks! > > Eric (Wood) > That looks like parted wasn't used to partition the disk, the file system is starting at sector 0 and the table is 'loop'. I'm not clear on what you think is wrong with parted. Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart