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|    wolfgang kern to John    |
|    Re: shortest FAT32    |
|    18 Mar 24 11:32:12    |
      From: nowhere@never.at              On 18/03/2024 10:10, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:              >> I'm still busy with manual creation of UEFI-GPT conform environment.              >> my idea is to make the first partition FAT32, but as small as possible.       >> because M$-FAT are defined by number of clusters rather then else my       >> only choice will be to set cluster-size to one sector       >> [65525 sectors] I need only 512 MB for my OS boot section, what a waste.              > 512MB seems quite a lot!              Yeah, it should read 512 KB :)       it later deploys itself depending on included features to 4..64 MB.              >> are there other ways to shorten a FAT32 w/o breaking too many rules ?       >> perhaps by write the first 8 bytes of the FAT ?              > Dunno; I've not been there; I've just replaced boot sectors to kill the       > Stone virus.       __       wolfgang              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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