On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:28 AM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br <jasse...@itelefonica.com.br> wrote: > Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Ahh, OK. Fair enough, that makes sense. The "legal" >>layout for DOS, then, would be: >> 1 primary partition >> 1 extended partition >> \ >> [logical drive][logical drive] >> Don't try to create 3 primary partitions - in DOS >>terms, that is an illegal layout. > > Interestingly, illegal in MSDOS and PCDOS, but > both FreeDOS and DRDOS accept this layout (I tested). > Anyway, shouldn't FDISK make the right layout > when requested to create multiple partitions?
No, it will do what you ask it. I think the old MS FDISK will balk & refuse to make >1 primary DOS partition but other tools will happily go along & create illegal layouts. I discovered this to my cost back in the days of Win NT & Linux 2.0. :¬( >> ... it looks to me a little like something is >> trying to write long filenames into your directory >> but not using the correct storage format or method. > > Yes, it looks possible. Another possibility, if > these entries appear only when running NDN or nicscan, > but not on a dir comand, is that something is writing > correct LFNs, but the versions of those programs > Marcos uses do not recognize them. Also a good point! Of course, most LFN-aware apps are Win32-only, but it's possible there is something that is doing just that. The rest of the LFN in VFAT is stored as volume label entries in the FAT - in other words, 0-length files with no contents, just a name & an impossible combination of attributes, that ordinary DOS apps just ignore. LFNs on FAT was a very clever hack! It's now generally forgotten that it was Windows NT 3.5 that introduced the system, long before Windows 95. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
