OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria related! Sorta...

• Posted by Daniel Berstein <daber at PAIR.COM> Dec 27, 1998
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>One more thing, is there any disadvantages to moving to the FAT32 vs
>FAT16?  I know if I keep FAT16, I'll have to partition the new drive
>into 4 or so other drives, but then again that is a small price to pay
>for anything that would harass me because of FAT32.

Even if you use FAT32 you should partition your drive Kevin. Partitioning
a big drive improves data security and access speed. Notice that FAT32
is propietary of OSR2 an 98, DOS and NT can read it (Windows 2K will).

FAT16 has a limit of 65.525 clusters so the biggest volume you can
achieve is of 2GB with a 32K cluster size!. That's a lot of wasted space,
and if you multiply it by four, you may be loosing several hundred
megas. FAT32 can have clusters as small as 4K for 8GB volumes, that
makes much better use of your harddisk.


Regards,
        Daniel   Berstein
        daber at pair.com