Yesterday I've tested FORMAT on a 40GB HD, with a one big partition. I was trying to format it as FAT32 under WinXP, but it refuses to format such a large partition as FAT, it wants to format it as NTFS.
So I've inserted a floppy with FreeDOS in it (sorry, I had only the official beta9pr5 distro and format 0.91r handy) and booted.
Fdisk correctly created a FAT32/ext partition and Format correctly formatted it (quick format). WinXP recognized it and its chkdsk shown no problems. The only "problem" is that format used 32KB cluster size for the partition. I think it's beause it wants to have little FATs (the number of clusters was 1200000 or so), but I thought I could format it with 16KB clusters. I didn't found an option to choose a particular cluster size.
As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up.
Ciao
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