Al salaam a'alaykum Jasen

21 Jan 04 07:28, Jasen Betts wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT>> some OS writer's idea of how it should work.  Got dos on this
 RJT>> box,  and what with drives getting bigger I have a couple of
 RJT>> choices -- make the partitions bigger or use more of them.  Make
 RJT>> them bigger and all of a sudden I'm wasting lots of space,  on
 RJT>> the average half an allocation unit _per file_,  use more of them
 RJT>> and whoops!  We're out of drive letters!

 JB> dos 7.10 will do a 32-bit FAT (with 4K allocation units on an 8G 
 JB> partition)

Linux Ext2 is quite happy to partion 120Gb as one partition.

Regards,
David

And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
     Willie Nelson

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