Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes

[Gareth Bult]

Hi,
> Afaik i'm the only gparted developer (note that you're actually asking on
> the wrong list since gparted != (lib)parted ) and the the min. size for
> fat filesystems have always been 32/256 MB, so i really don't understand
> the 8Mb limit you are mentioning.

Unfortunately I'm not too aware of the internals and who works on what .. I can however say that as a result of this issue, I'm unable to use "gparted" ..

Unless I'm losing my marbles, gparted 0.0.8 tells me that the min partition size for dos fs' is 8Mb .. and 0.0.9-pre is larger.

> seems sensible etc.. Please file a bug
> (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/bugs.php) about this, with your arguments,

Will do.

> PS. Andrew, could you please elaborate a bit about why a partition should
> be rounded to cylinderboundaries? I've always been told this is a good
> thing, but i don't know exactly why ;)  thanks!

Just one point - if you *need* a 4Mb partition, reasons why it's "good" to round are completely immaterial .. (!)

Gareth.




> > Regards,
> > Gareth.
> >
> > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 02:55 +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Gareth,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:32:37PM +0000, Gareth Bult wrote:
> >> > Apparently the absolute minimum for any dos related filesystem in
> >> > gparted is 16Mb.
> >>
> >> Parted doesn't support FAT12.  FAT16 has a minimum size of about 32Mb,
> >> if
> >> I remember correctly.  (How did you get 16Mb?)
> >>
> >> The partition table alignment constraints (CHS stuff) can be overridden
> >> if you are using libparted directly.  (You can use
> >> ped_constraint_exact().)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >
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