Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:44:37 -0800 From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu> To: Dragon Knight <dragonknight@dtgnet.com> Cc: Marc Andre Paquin <mapaquin@cca.qc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fat32 and fat16 Message-ID: <36723B05.51E65F9E@seattleu.edu> References: <003f01be259e$5e2e36a0$81e9fea9@death>
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If you have or once had multiple MS-DOS FAT drives then you may have configured DOS to use all of the space available. (Run fdisk.exe, then hit 4.) In this case you will have to reduce the size of the extended partition (and maybe the primary if it runs past the 1024 cylinder boundary) through reformatting or by using a partition shrinker such as tools/fips.exe. (You may need to create one logical drive that uses the entire extended partition, but I'm not sure...) P.S. I'll be off the list for about three weeks Dragon Knight wrote: > > Perhaps I'm just numb of the mind.. well, ok, I am numb of the mind but > anyway, I have a 6.4 Gig. IDE drive in this box, currently it has a 2.1 Gig. > FAT16 partition with Win98 and a ~4.1 Gig. chunk split off for FreeBSD. I > did have a 2.1 Gig. FAT16 partition, and a ~2.5 Gig. FAT32 Partition but > found that FreeBSD (2.2.6) refused to install in the remaining space on the > disk. Thus I was forced to remove the FAT32 partition before continuing. > I'm thinking this is because all partitions after the first MS-DOS (C:) > which is the Primary DOS partition are created in the Extended DOS > partition. These additions partitions (the ones in the Extended DOS > partition) are so-called Logical DOS drives. So, to have more than 1 DOS > drive FAT32 or FAT16 you must be sure to have the last (X) part of the drive > untouched. Meaning, don't have DOS's fdisk use 100% of the space while > making the DOS extended partition. If you haven't done a lot of partitioning > in your life, which I haven't, you may think that they cannot at first > glance but a FAT32 and a FAT16, or 2x FAT32's, whatever, should be able to > run alongside a FreeBSD partition without any problems. Someone correct me > if I'm wrong. > > Samuel Greear <big snip> -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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