---- Le ven., 24 sept. 2021 13:22:11 -0400 Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> écrit ----
> > Hi Jerome, > > > If ... there are no partitions on the target hard drive, > > it tells fdisk to automatically partition the drive... > > > If there is a command line option to perform automatic > > partitioning using a single big partition, I am unaware of it. > > If FDISK defaults to making 1000 partitions of 2 GB each > when you have a 2 TB drive, that is utterly useless. MOST > users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can > have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z: > > This makes FreeDOS look ridiculously 1980s, sorry. Any > workarounds possible? > > Regards, Eric Well... looks like we are using indeed 1980 technology in 2021. The FDISK docs says that /AUTO disk partition the disk with FAT16 partitions. https://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/fdisk.htm We know FAT16 bigger partition size is 2GB: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/370180/why-can-fat16-not-store-more-than-2-gb We probably don't want to break current /AUTO for people using it to do 2 GB partitions... [supposing such persons exist] Then we probably need a new option (/AUTOFAT32 ?) that would partition in ... well... ideally would find the minimum of "full disk" and BIOS maximum supported size according to bits in LBA... I suppose. ... or much more simply... force user to format manually and never autoformat the disk? _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
