Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes

[B.Hakvoort]

>> That's what gparted does.. the min size for fat32 is 256MB (dosfstools
>> limit). In the case there are no min. sizes (e.g. ext2) gparted takes
>> the
>> cylindersize of the disk as min.size.
>
>
> Mmm, now I'm confused. I just formatted an 8Mb USB stick using
> mkdosfs .. then mounted in using;
> mount -t vfat -shortname=winnt /dev/sda1 /mnt
>
> It seems to work perfectly .. 256Mb limit ??????
>
Strange, didn't mkdosfs create some other kind of fat filesystem like
fat16/12/8 or whatever? (i never really understood fat* :) )
>
>> > At the moment it seems that the filesystems have to fit to the
>> > partitioning software, whereas the partitioning software should
>> actually
>> > fit around the filesystems ???
>>
>> You know.. in my dreams the harddisks should fit around the filesystems
>> as
>> wel.
>
>
> Well, you say;
>>In the case there are no min. sizes (e.g. ext2) gparted takes the
> cylindersize of the disk as min.size.
>
> How about saying a lower arbitrary size .. say 1.2Mb .. ???
>


> Gareth.
>
>
>
>
>> Bart
>>
>> >
>> > Gareth.
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:30 +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
>> >
>> >> It's not artificial since this the cylindersize is calculated from
>> the
>> >> CHS
>> >> information which in turn is read from the disk.
>> >>
>> >> Hope this makes it clear :)
>> >>
>> >> > Urm,
>> >> >
>> >> > You're imposing an artificial limitation on the software that
>> prevents
>> >> > it from being used.
>> >> > How does it make sense ?
>> >> >
>> >> > For embedded systems, partitions can easily be less than 8Mb , not
>> >> only
>> >> > do partitions of this size work without a problem, they are
>> *needed*
>> >> ..
>> >> >
>> >> > (!)
>> >> >
>> >> > Gareth.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:18 +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> For ext2 gparted takes the size of one cylinder as the min size.
>> This
>> >> >> makes sense, since partitions are rounded to cylinderboundaries.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Bart
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > Hi
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I'm using gparted 0.0.8 with associated libgparted 1.6.20.
>> (Gentoo)
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > There appear to be artificial limits in partition sizes when
>> >> creating
>> >> >> > new partitions, different minimums per partition type.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Whereas some partitions may have minimum sizes, I *need* to be
>> able
>> >> to
>> >> >> > create 4Mb ext2 partitions (which I can do quite happily using
>> >> fdisk)
>> >> >> ,
>> >> >> > yet the apparent minimum in gparted is set to 8Mb. (and it looks
>> >> like
>> >> >> > it's getting this from 'parted')
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Is there easy way of getting around this ?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > If not, any chance of some saner minimum size checking ?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >> > Gareth.
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