Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
> Granted that you can, it may simply be more trouble than it's worth. Agree. No point to brew 64 KiO clusters. -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hass

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, dos386 wrote: >> You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which >> uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS. > > Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but > I never tested. No, I didn't. It may be *possibl

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
> You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which > uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS. Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but I never tested. > See http://support.macro$oft.com/kb/310561 See drdos.org and drdosprojects.de (latter

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-27 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Marcos Florence wrote: > 4GB FAT16 partitions would be a lot better, but for some reason > I couldn't make them. FDISK isn't always easy to use. FAT16 has a 2GB limit, imposed by the format. The smallest area of disk accessible by DOS is the cluster. FAT16 uses

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-27 Thread Marcos Florence
Hi, A defrag supporting FAT32 would be nice indeed. I have been taking lots of digital photos recently, and they need large amounts of disk space. The only reason I have been unwilling to use FAT32 is that there is no way of defragmenting. Instead, I made several FAT16 partitions of 2GB each --

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:37 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: >> > Thanks for the follow up. I can boot with a floppy using MS-DOS 6.2. But I don't think that version supports FAT32. (And I have no idea if defragging FAT is supported under Linux or FreeBSD.) > I think my version of the defrag pro

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread John R. Sowden
On 02/26/2014 04:16 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden > wrote: >> On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to >> do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). > It cou

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: > On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to > do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). It could be a bug in the program or (maybe?) an incompati

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-25 Thread John R. Sowden
On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Ehlert
> When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to > do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). > On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, > 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought it. I have > since removed windo

[Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-24 Thread John R. Sowden
When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought it. I have since removed window (xp?).