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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, David Lane wrote:

> Dos supports only ONE primary partion,the rest are listed as extended
> partitions (in MSDOS at least)
I have four primary DOS partitions on all my computers.
Maybe it is Windows that won't recognize other primary partitions?
> David Lane
>
> And yes,FAT32 is a waste of time under 1 gig ,and slower to access
We put it on because it has smaller cluster size - 4K instead of 8K or 16K 
- thereby letting us put on more files.  But the disk is 1.2G and we were 
not really short on space for Win98 and DOS.  Will redo it straight Fat16.

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