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   Kerr-Mudd, John to wolfgang kern   
   Re: shortest FAT32   
   18 Mar 24 09:10:06   
   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   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.   
   >   
   512MB seems quite a lot!   
      
   > 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   
      
   Dunno; I've not been there; I've just replaced boot sectors to kill the   
   Stone virus.   
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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