On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros <fav...@mpcnet.com.br> wrote: > Hi Mateusz and Liam, > > Thanks!
:¬) No problem. >> (Liam) >> You do know that the maximum legal size for a FAT16 partition is 2GB? > > > Yes, I realize that each FAT16 partition can only be 2 GB. I was > trying to have 3 partitions in the 6 GB disk. Ahh, OK. Fair enough, that makes sense. The "legal" layout for DOS, then, would be: 1 primary partition 1 extended partition \ [logical drive][logical drive] Don't try to create 3 primary partitions - in DOS terms, that is an illegal layout. > This was an attempt to avoid FAT32, because I do not know how > reliable its recovery tools are. If they are reliable, then I > will gladly adopt FAT32 :-) FAT32 is actually pretty stable in my experience, but that's mainly on Win9x/NT/Linux. If one were running FAT32 on a DOS system, my inclination would be to have a <512MB boot partition in FAT16, then the rest of the space as a FAT32 drive or drives for apps and data. For what its worth, most of my PCs tend to have a 32MB FAT16 DOS boot partition, then Windows, Linux etc all kept in logical drives in an extended partition. This is the most flexible "legal" arrangement - you can have many logical drives, but only 4 primary partitions. On the machine I'm typing on, there is: [32MB DOS boot] [ unformatted primary, reserved for OpenSolaris ] [ unformatted primary, reserved for FreeBSD ] [ extended start [NTFS, Win2K] [NTFS, Win7/64] [Ubuntu root] [Spare Linux ext3 volume] end extended ] With a 2nd drive reserved for data. BSD and Solaris will not install into logical partitions, so I must set aside primaries for them - but all versions of Linux and Windows will. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
