it's 2021? On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 4:50 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > > ---- Le ven., 24 sept. 2021 13:22:11 -0400 Eric Auer <[email protected]> > écrit ---- > > > > > Hi Jerome, > > > > > If ... there are no partitions on the target hard drive, > > > it tells fdisk to automatically partition the drive... > > > > > If there is a command line option to perform automatic > > > partitioning using a single big partition, I am unaware of it. > > > > If FDISK defaults to making 1000 partitions of 2 GB each > > when you have a 2 TB drive, that is utterly useless. MOST > > users will have FAR more than 60 GB disk size and you can > > have only 24 drive letters from C: to Z: > > > > This makes FreeDOS look ridiculously 1980s, sorry. Any > > workarounds possible? > > > > Regards, Eric > > Well... looks like we are using indeed 1980 technology in 2021. > > The FDISK docs says that /AUTO disk partition the disk with FAT16 partitions. > https://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/fdisk.htm > > We know FAT16 bigger partition size is 2GB: > https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/370180/why-can-fat16-not-store-more-than-2-gb > > We probably don't want to break current /AUTO for people using it to do 2 GB > partitions... [supposing such persons exist] > > Then we probably need a new option (/AUTOFAT32 ?) that would partition in ... > well... ideally would find the minimum of "full disk" > and BIOS maximum supported size according to bits in LBA... I suppose. > > ... or much more simply... force user to format manually and never autoformat > the disk? > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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