DOS 4.01 cluster size

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From: Ken Snyder
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 19:08

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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

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From: kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder)
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Subject: DOS 4.01 cluster size
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Date: 1 Feb 90 19:08:41 GMT
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