Re: cluster size

[Ian]

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Yah, I do service work on windows (barf!) machines.  We've used
things like ezdrive to fix old BIOSes (BIOI?), and it does the same thing.
We've gone to the point of making two 8gb partitions instead of one big
15 on machines we can't update the bios.  I suppose thats a lazy way of
doing it, as we probably could find another disc size remap utility.

What will happen in some cases is scandisk will take forever, to the point
where you don't want to wait anymore (like several days).  It does
not happen in all cases, or perhaps an error in the file system
causes it to happen.  Older versions of norton ghost do the same thing (4k
instead of 8k).

I'll look for more specific examples and get back to you when I find them.
Perhaps next time I see it, I'll make a partition image (using partimage)
and save a copy if you want to take a look.


Ian Boje
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Andrew Clausen wrote:

>Ian wrote:
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>> I made a partition with fs on a drive larger then 8gb, and the cluster
>> size was 4K (fat32) when I think it should have been 8K.  Am I doing
>> something wrong, or is this a bug?
>
>I guess it's a "bug".  What's wrong with a cluster size of 4k, as
>opposed to 8k (for FAT32)?
>
>Do any other programs complain?
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew Clausen
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