Re: Please help with following situation

[Felix Miata]

On 2010/11/22 13:07 (GMT-0600) Steve Cohen composed:

> /dev/sda2             132         164      265072+   6  FAT16
>        /dev/sda2 = /DOS

That may be an unfortunate choice of size. With a "255 head" scheme it's up 
to one "cylinder" past the maximum size handled by a FAT16B cluster size of 
4096, making your clusters 8192, doubling overhang waste. I think if you 
proceed to do all your installing to /dev/sda2 and check freespace, then 
delete sda2, recreate at ~257040 "blocks" (514,080 sectors), reformat, and 
reinstall, you'll find considerably more freespace on the smaller partition, 
unless your files are mostly larger than 8192 bytes.

Optionally if actually using DOS 7.1 instead of 7.0, or by using FreeDOS, and 
if all your "DOS" applications are filesystem agnostic, you could format 
FAT32 and keep the smaller 4096 byte clusters, along with other advantages 
FAT32 brings over FAT16B.
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