On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:07:29 -0500, Roger Turk wrote: > Thomas Mueller asked:
> .. > When Partition Magic reduces the size of a big FAT16 partition, only a > .. > small percentage occupied, from 2 GB to 255 MB, would the allocation unit > .. > be reduced from 32768 bytes to 4096 bytes? > Yes. In fact, you can even specify the size of the allocation (cluster) that > you want and Partition Magic will tell you the maximum size of the partition > that you can have, e.g., for one of my 2.1GB partitions, I went to the resize > operation and indicated that I wanted a 2K cluster and PM said that I needed > to resize to 125.5MB. > I was in an electronics supply store (not a computer store or discount store) > the other day and they had a couple of copies of the latest PM on the shelf > for US$49.99 with a US$15.00 mail-in rebate. With the German magazine "PC WELT" (PC World) came a CD with free Partition Magic 5.01 It runs under DOS, Linux, Win 3.x and Win9x. Bastiaan > BTW, in the last couple of days I have found out some more things WRT DOS, > large HDs, and PM that I will share with you in a couple of days. (The last > couple of days has, to say the least, been very frustrating!) > Roger Turk > Tucson, Arizona USA -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
