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From: | Gareth Bult |
Subject: | Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes |
Date: | Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:59:59 +0000 |
Afaik i'm the only gparted developer (note that you're actually asking on the wrong list since gparted != (lib)parted ) and the the min. size for fat filesystems have always been 32/256 MB, so i really don't understand the 8Mb limit you are mentioning.
seems sensible etc.. Please file a bug (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/bugs.php) about this, with your arguments,
PS. Andrew, could you please elaborate a bit about why a partition should be rounded to cylinderboundaries? I've always been told this is a good thing, but i don't know exactly why ;) thanks!
Just one point - if you *need* a 4Mb partition, reasons why it's "good" to round are completely immaterial .. (!)
> Regards, > Gareth. > > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 02:55 +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote: > >> Hi Gareth, >> >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:32:37PM +0000, Gareth Bult wrote: >> > Apparently the absolute minimum for any dos related filesystem in >> > gparted is 16Mb. >> >> Parted doesn't support FAT12. FAT16 has a minimum size of about 32Mb, >> if >> I remember correctly. (How did you get 16Mb?) >> >> The partition table alignment constraints (CHS stuff) can be overridden >> if you are using libparted directly. (You can use >> ped_constraint_exact().) >> >> Cheers, >> Andrew >> > > -- > Linux.co.uk - promoting open source software in the UK > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then > you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I > have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two > ideas." - George Bernard Shaw >
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