Re: [LI] Re: 1024 cylinder limit

["Jiju Thomas Mathew" <digitelnet@xxxxxxxx>]

>I think it can do that. But the ONLY thing it can do is to create the
>partition. Now its up to you to format it to Fat32 OR fat 16 or any File
>System Type.


in dos u have to specify the file system format when creating the partition,
so
any partition greater than 2048 mb will be in fat 32

this is how it is seen

16 bit FAT (fat 16)    ->  65536 allocatable units (address spaces)
    in fat 16 the smallest unit takes 32KB so
        32 * 65536 =  2097152 KB = 2048MB = 2 GB

32 bit FAT (fat 32)    ->  4294967296 allocatable units (address spaces)
    in fat 16 the smallest unit takes 4KB so
        4 * 4294967296 =  17179869184 KB =  16777216 MB =  16384 GB
        hence fat32 will take 16384 GB in one partition.

but either way you partition in fat 32/16 and has to format in the same
format.


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