From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 24 03:21:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA25715 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 03:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA25698 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 03:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA18795 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:21:16 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA18856 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:21:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA09821 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:07:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608241007.MAA09821@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: DOS root directory? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:07:17 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608240815.KAA00455@eac.iafrica.com> from Robert Nordier at "Aug 24, 96 10:15:11 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Nordier wrote: > Most users with very large DOS filesystems probably do shrink them > when installing FreeBSD. And if FIPS were more conscientious, it > would adjust the cluster size to something more appropriate (and > probably then <= 32 sectors). This would require a complete reorganization of the file system, not just adjusting the BPB only. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)