This bug is not waiting for information from Risto or Fanfarlo. I expect that this bug has in practice gone away for most users, since we no longer automount partitions. HOWEVER, that does NOT mean that enthusiastic bug triagers should go ahead and close it, since I expect that it will still happen if people choose to mount those partitions by hand. It just won't be an installation blocker for most people any more, that's all (progress, but not completion).
The error simply means that parted can't figure out the right number of sectors per cluster and the file allocation table size. A comment in the source code reveals that this is a difficult task: /* DO NOT EDIT THIS ALGORITHM! * As far as I can tell, this is the same algorithm used by Microsoft to * calculate the size of the file allocaion tables, and the number of clusters. * I have not verified this by dissassembling Microsoft code - I came to this * conclusion by empirical analysis (i.e. trial and error - this was HORRIBLE). * * If you think this code makes no sense, then you are right. I will restrain * the urge to inflict serious bodily harm on Microsoft people. */ -- FAT partition bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27506 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
