kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder) (02/02/90)
The last few days there has been a discussion about DOS 4.01 using 4k cluster sizes. Some alluded to the fact that if you dropped the size of a partition the cluster size would drop to 2k (since there is a 64k limit on some table somewhere). Well, last night I tried reformatting (using FDISK) a 150Mbyte drive into a 128Mbyte partition and when it was all said and done I still had 4k clusters. So how do I get DOS to give me 2k clusters? Thanks for the info, Ken
Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (02/02/90)
In article <5190073@hplsla.HP.COM>, kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder) wrote: }The last few days there has been a discussion about DOS 4.01 using 4k cluster }sizes. Some alluded to the fact that if you dropped the size of a partition }the cluster size would drop to 2k (since there is a 64k limit on some table }somewhere). Well, last night I tried reformatting (using FDISK) a 150Mbyte }drive into a 128Mbyte partition and when it was all said and done I still }had 4k clusters. So how do I get DOS to give me 2k clusters? The limit is actually 64K-18 (yes, eighteen). If you formatted to exactly 128M, you still had too many clusters for 2K clusters. Try 127M instead. -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=- 412-268-3053 (school) -=- FAX: ask ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 "How to Prove It" by Dana Angluin Disclaimer? I claimed something? 14. proof by importance: A large body of useful consequences all follow from the proposition in question.