From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020612 Description of problem: Unable to create a partition of type vfat larger than 2048MB How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Double-click on 3GB of Free Space in Disk Druid 2.Select vfat as the partition type Actual Results: DiskDruid returns an error that vfat partitions must be no larger than 2048MB. Expected Results: Creation of a FAT32 partition of the expected size, or failing that the creation of a 3GB partition containing a FAT16 filesystem of 2048MB.
Experienced same problem when trying to partition a brand new 120G Maxtor. 8.0.93 (Phoebe) Workaround was to use 7.3 fdisk.
Duplicated above problem with phoebe 8.0.93. Worked around problem by using 7.3 fdisk. Disk was a brand new Maxtor 120G.
New mkdosfs (>= 2.8-8) can auto-detect the need for FAT32 and so the anaconda restriction has been lifted.
*** Bug 103572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mass-closing lots of old bugs which are in MODIFIED (and thus presumed to be fixed). If any of these are still a problem, please reopen or file a new bug against the release which they're occurring in so they can be properly tracked.