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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 14.01.2023, 11:47

As a primarly feedback to Fritz post a can confirm that there are software bugs when creating large FAT32 (and propably FAT16) partitions.

1) Detection of cluster size is broken for large partitions. A maximum cluster size of 8 sectors (4k) is used resulting in essentially broken partitions.
2) Calculation of FAT table size is not done according to standard resulting in wasted space.

I already fixed these bugs for the FAT32 format routine and they should be gone in the next release.

Further there are display errors (negative numbers) resulting from wrong format specifiers in printf instructions when showing file system information. Fixed in the next release.

I will audit all the FAT related code and bring it to conformance with the standard, so the next release will take some time to prepare.

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