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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: MSDOS file system question Date: 03 Apr 1997 09:48:12 +0200 Organization: Universitaetsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Berlin, Germany Lines: 28 Message-ID: <r7zpvgk0n7.fsf@ukrv.de> References: <5h9428$a8i$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5hbhvu$g0@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ukrv.de X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38330 brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) writes: > The problem seems to be filesystems with 16k cluster sizes (>1028Mb). By the way: I have 16k block size when I'm using partitions bigger than 504MB. Or does cluster size means somehing else ? I'm speaking of the cluster size like this: When I create a file smaller than 16KB size on the disk the disk space loose exactly 16KB. Is this what you're talking about ? The next problem is that I even had problems writing to partitions bigger than 504MB (one time my whole disk crashed). Maybe it is because fdisk always tells me that my DOS-partition is a FAT16-partition. (I'm using partitions about 990MB) > If you're encountering this problem, you'll see an error about cluster > sizes when you mount the partition. Umount it immediately or risk > trashing the whole system. Yeah, but is it possible that this problem will be resolved ? It's very enerving using mtools (very slow) to write to DOS-partitions or using streamer-tapes to transfer data...:-( Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!