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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making another partition Date: 14 May 1996 22:38:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4nb20u$20d@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <mozart-0805961121090001@madama.butterfly.net> <4mqud4$cva@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4mvij5$q5i@news.scruz.net> <4mvrrb$okp@sidhe.freenix.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) wrote: > FIPS (see the tools/ directory on any FreeBSD CD-ROM) can do it too. For > free. The only caveat is that there is a bug in the msdosfs code that will > prevent read/write use of the shrinked DOS partition. There's another caveat: since FIPS cannot reduce the cluster size of the reduced DOS partition, the existing FAT file system will continue to waste too much disk space by using an unnecessary large cluster size. (Remember that a 2 GB FAT file system uses 64 KB per cluster. This likely results in some 30 % of wasted space.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)