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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:50:16 +0200 (MEST)
From: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy <kahl AT informatik DOT uni-kl DOT de>
To: Pierre Habraken <Pierre DOT Habraken AT imag DOT fr>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin on FAT16 is very huge !
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Pierre Habraken wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone explain the following strange thing :
>
> When installing Cygwin (downloaded from ftp.funet.fi on 08/23/2002) on a
> NTFS partition (W2000 box), the full release (all packages installed)
> occupies about 700+ MO.
> When installing it  on a FAT16 partition (W98 box), the same full
> release uses 1.8+ GO !
>
> I need to install the full release in less than 1 GO.
> How can I do that ?

 Well, do not use FAT16 ?

 IIRC every thing that is made out of many, many little files
 will explode on an big FAT16 filesystem.
 This is, because on FAT16 every file uses a integer number of
 so-called clusters. If e.g. your cluster-size is 16k, even a
 one-byte-file will uses 16k.

 (If I am wrong, please someone correct this.)


   Bjoern Kahl

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