Hi,
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:59 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> As a matter of curiosity, given that we were unable to find a precise answer
> to why Microsoft dropped IFS after MS-DOS 5.0 (although we had speculations),
> I thought, why not ask ChatGPT (Bing) about that?
>
> I had hoped that
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 1:07 PM Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> in the last two weeks I ported Free FDISK to Watcom C and started fixing the
> bugs people mentioned
> at the bttr forum and in the issue trackers.
Great news! Thanks a ton for your work on this.
BTW, it seems
Hey!
As a matter of curiosity, given that we were unable to find a precise
answer to why Microsoft dropped IFS after MS-DOS 5.0 (although we had
speculations), I thought, why not ask ChatGPT (Bing) about that?
The answer is quite curious (I can't send the image due to mailing list
size
> However, when the disk already has a partition and is full…
>
> fdisk 1 /prio:2000 ; no error, no partition created, exit errorlevel 0
> fdisk 1 /pri:100,100 ; divide error, no partition created, exit errorlevel 3
Nice finding!
Fixed in
Hi Bernd,
> On Feb 27, 2023, at 12:57 PM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
>
>> Am 27.02.2023 um 17:28 schrieb jer...@shidel.net:
>>
>> I think I will go with a max partition of 2GB (FAT16) on real hardware and
>> the entire disk (FAT32) inside Virtual Machines.
>
> If you
> Am 27.02.2023 um 19:31 schrieb jer...@shidel.net:
>
> Using your example, I think it would be easier for a user to understand as:
>
> fdisk 1 /clear /pri:2048 /ext:max /log:4096 /log:max
>
I agree and implemented it as you suggested. The MAX quantifier now internally
is the same as the
> On Feb 27, 2023, at 12:02 PM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
>> Seriously, thank you. :-)
>
> Glad I could help :-)
>
>> On a side note: It might be nice to support '/prio:max’ and '/pri:max’.
>
>
> Shouldn’t do /pri:100,100 the trick?
Yep, works fine.
> The ,100
> I'm not sure if this fdisk can already do that, but additionally it
> would also be very useful if it could align partitions to 4k rather
> than 63 sectors to lower wear on flash drives (SSD, CompactFlash).
You can certainly make a case for aligning things on 4k boundaries on both
modern and
> Am 27.02.2023 um 17:28 schrieb jer...@shidel.net:
>
> I think I will go with a max partition of 2GB (FAT16) on real hardware and
> the entire disk (FAT32) inside Virtual Machines.
If you want it to be FAT-16 I would suggest not doing /PRIO:2048 but instead
/PRIO:2047 or even less, because
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:55:31 +0100
tom ehlert wrote:
> I hate feature flags as they must be decovered first.
>
> hiding it behind
>
>if lba_supported_by_disk and
> total_disk_size > 8,4 GB // max total size for CHS addressing
> {
> place partitions on 4K boundary
> }
> Seriously, thank you. :-)
Glad I could help :-)
> On a side note: It might be nice to support '/prio:max’ and '/pri:max’.
Shouldn’t do /pri:100,100 the trick? The ,100 indicates that the first value is
to be interpreted as a percentage. If you want to specify the size in MB you
must NOT
Hi,
> On Feb 27, 2023, at 7:27 AM, Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
>> Am 26.02.2023 um 23:31 schrieb Jerome Shidel :
>>
>> Unfortunately, the current FDISK performs this task be creating a bunch of
>> 2GB partitions. This tends to annoy users installing on real
Hallo Herr Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel,
am Montag, 27. Februar 2023 um 13:07 schrieben Sie:
>> Am 27.02.2023 um 07:26 schrieb Deposite Pirate :
>>
>> I'm not sure if this fdisk can already do that, but additionally it
>> would also be very useful if it could align partitions to 4k rather
Hi Jerome,
> Am 26.02.2023 um 23:31 schrieb Jerome Shidel :
>
> Unfortunately, the current FDISK performs this task be creating a bunch of
> 2GB partitions. This tends to annoy users installing on real hardware with
> very large disks.
Yes at the moment it sadly is hardcoded to creating
> Am 27.02.2023 um 07:26 schrieb Deposite Pirate :
>
> I'm not sure if this fdisk can already do that, but additionally it
> would also be very useful if it could align partitions to 4k rather than
> 63 sectors to lower wear on flash drives (SSD, CompactFlash).
The current behaviour is to
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