you know, you could've just used techw0rm to fix it.
hehe, anyway enough of my advertising of my
wonderfully incredible bootdisk. rofl
actually, I just needed to beef up my question..."what
the heck is wrong with fat32?!"
- W0rm
--- Glenn McCorkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:53:15 -0500, Clarence Verge
> wrote:
>
> > Laurie L Proud wrote:
>
> >> Hi All,
>
> >> Clarence...I am presently stuck with 16K cluster
> size on this 800Mb HD.
>
> >> When I Format C:/u apart from several logical
> drives is there another
> >> way to to reduce cluster size when I switch to
> 6.3
>
> > First, a question: What is 6.3 ?
>
> > Second, the only ways I know of to reduce DOS
> cluster size are:
> > 1) Switch to FAT32. (Nooo. DON'T do it!)
> > 2) Use Fdisk to create several logical drives.
> > For 2k cluster size in FAT16 mode, specify a max
> size of 125M
> > For 4k cluster size, specify 250M, for 8k, 500M
> > and you get 16k in the 500-1000M range.
>
> OK, here's my 2 cents worth. ;-)
>
> The actual limiting factor is not the total storage
> capacity of the
> partition.
>
> It's the total number of clusters that causes the
> snag.
> DOS has a limit of 64k as the number of clusters.
> (can't remember if it's 65535 or 65536)
>
> When I originally partitioned this 5.7gig HDD, I
> made the mistake of
> choosing a partition size that was a liitle too big
> on 7 of them.
> (1 cylinder too big to be exact)
>
> I have now rearraged the partitions to be like this.
>
>
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/partition_setup.txt
>
> As you see, the cluster size is now 8k per cluster
> on all of them.
>
> I was going to reduce the size c: and d: by just a
> little bit so that
> they would have only 4k per cluster. But then I
> would need a 10th
> partition to keep one of the other 7 from going to
> 16k per cluster.
>
> BTW,
> As you can also see... every partition is only 3
> days old.
> That's because that one bad cluster on drive C: is
> cluster 0 of cylinder 0
>
> Yes, my entire DOS system was down for 2 days untill
> I was
> able to fix it using Linux.
>
> --
> Glenn
> http://arachne.cz/
> http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
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