Excerpt from Clarence Verge:

>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. :((

I used Linux fdisk to get the right maximum partition size for cluster size 2k
and for cluster size 4k.  I don't trust MS-DOS FDISK for anything.  I haven't
checked if MS-DOS can read my DOS partitions, but DR-DOS has no trouble.

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