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   Message 4,137 of 4,255   
   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   
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