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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.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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