On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:05:19 -0400, Glenn McCorkle 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)
It's 65535 but that seems to be only theoretical.<G>
The problem is when you (at least *I*) do a calculation to find how
many megs you get with 65535 2k clusters, FDISK always disagrees with
you (ME) and installs a partition with the next larger size cluster.
I found the easiest way to get near the maximum was to tell it 125M.
Then it made a partition of 127+ M.
I could waste some of my life trying 126M, but I'm happy enuf right now.
BTW, my calc is 65535x2048 / 1024x1024 = 127.998M.
Try 127 and see what happens. :((
- Clarence Verge
- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
