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Topic: FAT16 on USB

I am trying to grow the first partition of a bootable usb stick.

It has been created as a small 128Mb FAT16 partition, using dd on ubuntu.

A series of errors are received from gparted.

This seems to be an extension of known bugs.

Device: /dev/sdb.  Total capacity 4Gb.
Intended partition size: less than 2Gb.
gparted versions: 0.15, 0.14, 0.7.

I don't include more detail, since I think it is probably unnecessary, given other threads.

2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: FAT16 on USB

GParted uses the libparted library from the parted project to resize FAT16 partitions.  Unfortunately this library does not support resizing FAT16 file systems smaller than 256 MiB.  See Bug 649324 - failure to move / resize fat32 partitions less than 256 MB in size.

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Re: FAT16 on USB

Owww!

I really need to do this!

Is there any other app which can just handle the resize?

How about Partition Magic? Or is that just Windows?

Anything that can be used from a live CD maybe?

Joey

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Re: FAT16 on USB

Partition Magic is old and unsupported since long (it was a commercial tool bought by Symantec).
mswindows contain a resizing tool since vista (from the dos window), that works on ntfs and fat, I think. It is possible that it works in this case.
Did you think to backup content and remake the stick with a bigger partition?

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***