On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:14:06 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 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.
IMHO,
That's the only "right way" to do it. <VBG>
> 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!
These are the stats of my 5gig drive.
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/drvstats.txt
The second physcal drive is 1.2gig and contains OpenLinux v2.3
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