Re: cluster size

[Andrew Clausen]

Ian wrote:
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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.

/me shudders.  Damn BIOSes (!)
 
> 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).

Ouch!

So, it's probably when the FATs get to a certain size...?

This could be a problem, because when Parted grows a partition, it
can't grow the cluster size.  I guess there's nothing much we can do
about this :-(

So, I guess we're left with: trying to get the cluster size up to
8k for certain size fs's.  I'd like to know: at what size should
we use 8k?  And 16k?

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen