Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
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. See http://support.macro$oft.com/kb/310561 See drdos.org and drdosprojects.de (latter

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dmccunney
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

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
Granted that you can, it may simply be more trouble than it's worth. Agree. No point to brew 64 KiO clusters. -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). It could be a bug in the program

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread John R. Sowden
On 02/26/2014 04:16 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:37 PM, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: Thanks for the follow up. I can boot with a floppy using MS-DOS 6.2. But I don't think that version supports FAT32. (And I have no idea if defragging FAT is supported under Linux or FreeBSD.) I think my

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Ehlert
When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought it. I have since removed window

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-25 Thread John R. Sowden
On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought

[Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-24 Thread John R. Sowden
When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought it. I have since removed window (xp?).