Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 00:45:25 -0500 From: "Breakdown" <mn39337@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size. Message-ID: <m0w29UI-0000XhC@knights.cc.ucf.edu>
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I still get that same error message even though I never FIPS-ed my hard drive... Just to clarify :-). Martin ---------- > From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> > To: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: (DOS) Partition Size / Cluster Size. > Date: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 8:08 PM > > On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Robert Clark wrote: > > > (DOS) > > Partition Size Cluster Size > > 1-31MB 512bytes > > 32-63MB 1k > > 64-127MB 2k > > 128-255MB 4k > > 256-511MB 8k > > 512-1023MB 16k > > 1024-2047MB 32k > > > > If you use FIPS to shrink a > > partition, don't cross a boundary > > above? > > Yes it does, and it makes FreeBSD's msdosfs code go bonkers. DOS can > handle it though. THat's why FIPS'd volumes are often ususable with > FreeBSD (you get the Warning: root is not a multiple of clustersize in > length or somesuch). > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major >
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