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FAT32 drive on GPT (Miscellaneous)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 02.09.2023, 21:51
(edited by tom on 02.09.2023, 22:45)

> It seems like it might also be possible to create a FORMAT program that
> doesn't require a drive letter as input.
absolutely.

FORMATing some disk area is like
READ/WRITE some stuff to the some sectors -
relative to the first sector of the partition

now if a new kernel learns new tricks to detect partitions - on GPT or/and even beyond 2TB - these FORMAT's and also file transfer will gain.

> I know there are some partition
> managers that will format the partitions they create (FDISK doesn't do
> that). Maybe that's the better approach, but it seems like it would also
> be possible to create a "smarter" FORMAT program that could make up for
> some of the shortcomings in FDISK?
FDISK is simply not able to handle GPT disks.

AND GPT disks don't come out of nowhere.
So I recommend to handle these problems in the Windows/Linux environments where these disks came from.


It's unlikely that FDISK will ever support GPT style partitioning, as this requires MUCH more effort to simply support detection.

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