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Subject:	Re: New HDD, NS:Limits of OSR2 fdisk partition size
From:	Raymond Hornung <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:31:22 +0900
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||Wednesday, October 14, 1998 12:47 PM Chuck Hassenplug wrote:
||Dear List Members,
||I just got a Fujitsu 4.3 GB UDMA HDD and I need to know
||the best way to set it up with two partitions, one a d:\ of 100mb
||for a swap disk  in win98 and the rest on a c:\ partition. It is in
||the computer right know, hooked up to the secondary IDE
||channel, with another drive being on the primary IDE. The

||motherboard is a FIC PA-2013. I would like to set it up with FAT32.
||Chuck Hassenplug

|James Kerr added:
|I think, though I am not certain (so no flames please) that FAT32 partitions
|must be a minimum of 512MB, so having a FAT32 100MB partition is not
|possible.


There is an undocumented flag for OSR2's FDISK, namely, /FPRMT.
If you do a FDISK /FPRMT, you are able to format partitions smaller than 512MB as
FAT32.

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