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|    JJ to wolfgang kern    |
|    Re: shortest FAT32    |
|    18 Mar 24 17:42:13    |
      From: jj4public@outlook.com              On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:57:20 +0100, wolfgang kern 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.       >       > are there other ways to shorten a FAT32 w/o breaking too many rules ?       > perhaps by write the first 8 bytes of the FAT ?       > __       > wolfgang              In at least Windows 7, it's 36MiB minimum for FAT-32.              Interrestingly irrelevant is that, exFAT can go as low as 1.44MB.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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