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Article #41591Re: DOS 4.01 cluster size
From: Ralf.Brown
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 11:36
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 11:36
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 4.01 cluster size Message-ID: <25c97ed6@ralf> Date: 2 Feb 90 11:36:38 GMT Sender: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: <5190073@hplsla.HP.COM>