The parted devs are apparently already on it. ( http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2007-June/001754.html ) Thanks for the technical explanation, though. I'm not really familiar with the way filesystems work or the significance of block sizes.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen
<kristian.hermansen@gmail.com> wrote:
> It makes sense that the iPod would be formatted this way to cut downSorry, what I mean to say is file a bug with the parted developers
> on allocated blocks. Most iPods hold music, files of which are
> generally 2KB or greater. So, the iPod cuts down a lot on the inode
> directory contents. You could reformat the iPod with 512 byte block
> sizes if you like. If libparted is broken, it should be fixed to
> handle these issues...
explaining the issue...
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difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
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failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
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