On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 19:22, E. C. Masloch via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > 64 Ki * 16 KiB = 1024 MiB. (The actual maximum amount of clusters is of > course slightly less than 64 Ki, to be exacting.) So you're off-by-one, > a "2 GB" file system cannot possibly be fully utilised with FAT16 at a > 16 KiB per cluster size.
Ah, OK. My apologies. Off-by-one errors are of course one of the two hardest problems in computer science, along with cache invalidation and naming things. > Hence tom's suggestion of FAT17. Clearly there's a joke here but I don't see it or get it. Ah well. Perhaps mine above will meet a similar reception. So, 1GB-2GB FAT16 partitions used 32kB clusters, and it was the orginally-NT-only 64kB clusters that were for 2-4GB drives. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
