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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:08:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size.
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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Robert Clark wrote:

> (DOS)
> Partition Size	Cluster Size
> 1-31MB 512bytes
> 32-63MB 1k
> 64-127MB 2k
> 128-255MB 4k
> 256-511MB 8k
> 512-1023MB 16k
> 1024-2047MB 32k
> 
> If you use FIPS to shrink a
> partition, don't cross a boundary
> above?

Yes it does, and it makes FreeBSD's msdosfs code go bonkers.  DOS can
handle it though.  THat's why FIPS'd volumes are often ususable with
FreeBSD (you get the Warning: root is not a multiple of clustersize in
length or somesuch).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major