Hi
02 Dec 2000, "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TM>> cluster size/allocation unit for FAT32?
Ricsi>> it could be 512 bytes ... but than MUCH RAM would be wasted ...
TM> so M& has chosen to use 4KB for sizes up to 8 GB and 8 KB for larger
TM> partitions ... and maybe even larger clusters for huge partitions
TM> That somewhat dilutes the advantage of FAT32. No advantage to FAT32
TM> on anything < 256 MB, including the Zip 250.
?? 256 MB ?? shouldn't that be 256 GB ;)
FAT32 was invented to support large disks.
When you want to fdisk a partition smaller than 1 GB it even warns you not
to use FAT32 ...
TM> I once downloaded the Win98E emergency bootdisk image from
TM> http://www.bootdisk.com, to see if it would read my DOS partitions,
TM> and it failed on the DOS partition on my second hard disk ("Invalid
TM> media")
M$ DOS is pretty strict ...
but everytime DOS told me that, partition magic told me the same ...
linux fdisk worked.
TM> Boot disk created from the image file had FORMAT.COM (or was it
TM> EXE?), but I don't know if it would format for FAT32, or what the
TM> syntax would be.
syntax for format is the same ... ;)
fdisk ask you when starting up, weather you wannt fat32, and than flags the
partition as fat32.
When format sees that it formats fat32.
CU, Ricsi
PS: 1.68 is IMHO not yet a real release, but an internal test version.
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