from Glenn McCorkle:
> The only reason you would need FAT32 support
> is if you're running win9x or above. :(
Even with just DOS stuff and no Windows, being able to use FAT32 would help save
disk space wasted by large cluster size of FAT16 on large partitions. DJGPP
stuff, for instance, takes a lot of space. I suppose one could have multiple
logical DOS partitions inside an extended partition, when FAT32 is not
available.
On a friend's computer, Compaq, bought in 1999 with Win98, I noticed, running
fdisk /status at an MS-DOS prompt, that the hard drive was 8 GB with one 2 GB
FAT16 partition, and the remaining space not partitioned. Cluster size was
32768 bytes. This computer-illiterate friend didn't know what this was all
about. I was surprised to see the hard disk preconfigured that way!
