unable to inspect fat16 system

[Cyborgscode]

# fdisk -l /dev/sde
Festplatte /dev/sde: 1,36 TiB, 1500301910016 Bytes, 2930277168 Sektoren
Festplattenmodell:                 
Einheiten: Sektoren von 1 * 512 = 512 Bytes
Sektorgröße (logisch/physikalisch): 512 Bytes / 4096 Bytes
E/A-Größe (minimal/optimal): 4096 Bytes / 4096 Bytes
Festplattenbezeichnungstyp: dos
Festplattenbezeichner: 0xeb8e465e

Gerät      Boot Anfang       Ende   Sektoren Größe Kn Typ
/dev/sde1        16065 2930272064 2930256000  1,4T  f W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/sde5        16128 2930272064 2930255937  1,4T  6 FAT16

Partition 1 beginnt nicht an einer physikalischen Sektorgrenze.


[root@eve ~]# fatcat -i /dev/sde5
WARNING: Bytes per sector is not 512 (38637)
WARNING: Sectors per cluster high (198)
! Failed to init the FAT filesystem

no matter what, if used with different calculated offsets via -O in any combination of the devices /dev/sde* , it was the same error message.

[github-maptoken]

Can you use an alternate tool, like fsck.fat, on the partition to see a summary view?
fsck.fat -v -n /dev/sde5
where '-v' is verbose mode, and '-n' is no-changes mode

[Cyborgscode]

Here is the the explnation: It was a TrueCrypt encoded drive for Windows and whatever TC had done to the partition table was fake to start with. I think we can close this.