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From: hobbes@portia.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard disk partitioning
Message-ID: <3354@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 89 06:41:02 GMT
Sender: Andrew Zimmerman <hobbes@Portia.stanford.edu>
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Is it possible to create a DOS partition with 16-bit FAT entries as
an extendeded DOS partition?
I am using DOS 3.3plus on a Zenith supersport-286 with a 40 Meg hard
disk.  The first partition is a DOS-16, with 33 Meg.  When I try to
create the second partition, the DOS command PREP creates a partition of
type DOS-12 for an 8 Meg partition.  Is there anyway to change this
partion to a DOS-16?  
    On a DOS-12 partition, space is allocated in 4096 byte blocks, while in
a DOS-16 partion, the space is allocated in 2048 byte blocks.  I would
like to use the smaller block size to minimize the cost of internal
fragmentation of the disk.
Thanks for any help.
Andrew Zimmerman
zimmer@umunhum.stanford.edu