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From: Wes Side Story <wdorale@rs1.mtmc.edu>
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Subject: Reformating fips partitions
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All of this talk about fips and cluster size has me wondering if
reformating the partition created after you "fips" a disk would change the
cluster size to corespond with the size of the partition rather than the
size of the disk.  I've got quite a few drives partitioned using fips and
I reformated the new partition assuming that it would change the cluster
size to a smaller value.  I know the original partition would still be the
same cluster size but does reformating change that?

Wes R Dorale
Network Administrator
Mount Marty College