Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:08:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970304170755.22395A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <s31c4a01.060@pii.com>
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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
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