On 2008/9/29, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Growing a FAT filesystem means extending the two File > Allocation Tables. These tables, IIRC, are stored > in contiguous sectors somewhere near the beginning. > So growing these tables means relocating files occupying > the sectors to which these tables would grow into -- > which would entail copying data to a free sector and > manipulating the FAT (both copies). More operations > are needed compared to growing other fs.
That's what I thought. I read somewhere that FAT doesn't have holes unlike ext2/3. No sparse files. > If you have the space, copying to a larger loopback file > would be more practical. > > I'm curious, why keep in it a FAT fs? Why not move it > other (better) fs? Nothing. I just want to play around with a FAT based mini Linux distro (syslinux boot) which I'll test under QEmu as a usb device. The thing is I want to trim rather than grow the FAT when I dump it to my 128MB thumb drive. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
