From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Subject: Re: Partition/Cluster problem with sources...
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Michelle Konzack <dos DOT mailinglists AT freenet DOT de> wrote:
: Am 12:44 15/01/03 GMT hat Martin Stromberg geschrieben:
:>2. How did you manage to get 4kB clusters on hda5. That should be 2kiB
:>cluster if you let DOZE format create it.

: Yes in theorie !!!
: Whenever I have used fdisk and format I get only 4 kByte Clutser but 
: no 2 kByte clusters. I think, this is a bug un the german Version of 
: msdos 6.22. 

...

: I like to stay with GNU. 

: Is there a GPL'ed tool to format correctly ??? 

Try FreeDOS' format. It's not perfect, but it's free.

: Ok, again and a some corrections. The exact sizees are: 

: hda1    c       MD-DOS, DJGPP           125 MBytes      4 kB/Cluster 

...

: hda5    d       swappartition            62 MBytes      4 kB/Cluster 

: # curently a swapping problem... because it try to use c:/

: hda6    e       tmp                     125 MBytes      4 kB/Cluster 

: hda7    f       [free]                  125 Mbytes      4 kB/Cluster 
: hda8    g       [free]                  125 Mbytes      4 kB/Cluster 

: # hda was an error from me, because it is 4 kByte too

: hda9    h       /usr/src  [my sources]  237 MBytes      4 kB/Cluster 

: nsf     i       mounted /home       117.760 MBytes      4 kByte/Block

Yes. But the point is you want as small cluster size as possible, as
long you don't have few very big files. And an OS installation and
DJGPP do have a lot of small files.

The limit for 2kiB clusters is around 128MiB, so your hda1-hda8
partitions should have a cluster size of 2kiB. It might be that DOZE
bug you mentioned. Or it might be that I'm wrong.

For the swap problem, you are using CWSDPMI, right? Then start it with
the parameters "-p -sd:\xxx.swp".


Right,

						MartinS