From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 00:45:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05434 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:45:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05418 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:45:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA29053; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:45:08 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma029048; Thu Mar 6 10:44:46 1997 Message-ID: <331E83BC.2761@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 10:43:40 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Side Story CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reformating fips partitions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wes Side Story wrote: > > 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 It should. Chkdsk will show you the cluster size so you can check. If you find yourself partitioning alot you may want to get PartitionMagic (http://www.partition.com). It really does magic with partitions. Nadav