parted-1.2.10 / Assertion failed.

[Jerome Lovy]

Hello,

here is my session:
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GNU Parted 1.2.10
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Andrew Clausen, Lennert Buytenhek and Red Hat
Inc.
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Using /dev/hda
Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
2491/255/63.
You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this
program. (parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0-19541.3 megabytes
Minor   Start     End    Type            Filesystem     Flags
1          0.0     86.3  primary         ext2           boot
2         86.3   2588.6  primary
3       2588.6   3090.6  primary         linux-swap
4       3090.6  19540.0  extended
5       3090.7  13092.0  logical
6      13092.1  19540.0  logical
(parted) mkfs 2 FAT
Warning: Would you like to use FAT32 for this filesystem?  It is much
more
efficient with your disk space, but is not compatible with early
versions of
Windows 95 and Windows NT.  Only select yes if you only use Linux, BSD,
MS
Windows 98 and/or MS Windows 95 B.
Yes No Cancel ? Y
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden
containing the version (1.2.10), and the following message:
 
Assertion (ft->raw_size >= fs_info->fat_sectors * 512) at table.c:158 in
function fat_table_write() failed.
Ignore Cancel ? C
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Thanks for developing/maintaining `parted' !

Best regards,
Jérôme