Bart, Thanks. I'll create and submit a patch to mkdosfs that will warn the end user and prevent creating FAT32 partitions under 32MiB.
Martin ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Bart Oldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:51:27 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [Freedos-kernel] Installing FreeDOS on a FAT32 partition >1024 Cyl... > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Martin Bogomolni wrote: > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=63 (kill trk0) > > fdisk the system to make a 16MiB partition on /dev/hda1, filesystem type 0x0b > > mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda1 > > this is the problem: 16MiB FAT32 partitions are not allowed -- the minimal > partition size for FAT32 is 64*1024*512 (minus a bit) =~ 32MiB, > below that it's nonsensical. > > If mkdosfs allows you to create them then that's a bug in mkdosfs. > > Bart > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-kernel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel ------- End of Original Message ------- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
