Subject: Re: Please, I still need help w/ MS-DOS partition
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, zodiac@darkness.gun.de>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@kurt.tools.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/03/1996 19:35:43
> Erm... That was *not* the answer I wanted to hear. (; I wonder if there's a
> parition size under which NetBSD won't choke. A MS-DOS partition of 100-300
> MB would probably be big enough to exchange data between Windows 95 and
> NetBSD. This has probably been tried before, so where's the limit?

The problem is the cluster size. In the current implementation it is limited
to 16k, but MSDOS supports and uses cluster sizes up to 32k to support
partition sizes of nearly 2 GB (32k * 0xffef to be exact). This means that
partitions up to nearly 1GB (16k * 0xffef) should be ok. Note that I haven't
checked the exact limit, but I did try with a partition of something above
500 MB once.

Hope it helps.
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