On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which >> uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS. > > Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but > I never tested.
No, I didn't. It may be *possible* to create a FAT16 filesystem with 64K clusters and a 4GB volume size, but I have no reason to want to. I still recfall all the fun with "slack space" in MS-DOS. Since only one file could be on a cluster, any space that file didn't occupy wasted. A 1K batch file could take 32K on disk. >> See http://support.macro$oft.com/kb/310561 > > See drdos.org and drdosprojects.de (latter unfortunately no longer > maintained). And to make use of 64K clusters and a 4GB volume size in DOS, you must also run a DR-DOS variant. Granted that you can, it may simply be more trouble than it's worth. I'm straight NTFS in Windows, and ext4 in Linux. I have a 2GB FAT32 partition on the box that has FreeDOS installed for it to live in, But Windows and Linux are on the box too. Linux and Windows can both see the FAT32 slice, Linux can see the NTFS partition, and an open source driver lets Windows access the ext4 file systems. FreeDOS can only see it's own slice, but I don't care. Worst case, I can defrag the FAT32 partition from Windows. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
