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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk 20gb and dos
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:58:49 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernie" <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: Hard Disk 20gb and dos


> It would be complicated using 8.4GB without using 512MB partitions.
However
> I agree that larger are mostly a waste of space.

Yes the is very true. DOS only has the cpability of 24 total drives,
whether they be physical or logical or a conbination of both. So why use
an 8GB drive for FAT 16? Really seems rediculous to me. That is why I
use different files systems. I can have up to 4 terabytes of space on a
single ext2 drive. They don't even make drives that large and if they
ever do, then they will come out with ext3 (which I have heard they are
already working on.)

The problem is at the very beginning. Mr Gates knew nothing about
operating systems. The first DOS that was used was for floppy drives.
Instead of making a new type of file system, they just used the old
floppy FAT 12 file system. Then when drives became large enough to use
all of that up, they came up with FAT 16 instead on developing a new
better file system. Fat is fine for floppy, but sucks big time for fixed
drives of any but the smallest size drives. (Even then it sucks because
they used 8 sectors per cluster and wasted a lot of space.)

>
> >If you would like to see this, there is a program called DRVSLACK.EXE
that
> will show >exactly how much space is being wasted. It is small enough
that

> I don't think it would be appreciated on the list, but I'm interested
so if
> you could eb so kind to send it to me?

I'll send it to you. It is 6192 or close to that zipped. Not much space
is saved by zipping it. It probably is a pklite or other compressed
executable. Did not look at the code to see what it
was, or it was written in assembler.

Pat




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