[openbeosstorage] Re: Facing the End ;-)
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:37:21 CET (+0100)
> <lurk mode=3D"off">
> Almost all filesystems have a minimum possible size indepedent of the
> data =
> they contain as well. You would also need this information if you
> wanted=
> to know if you had enough room to create a new partition. For
> example, =
> if you wanted to make a new FAT32 partition you would need to have
> enough=
> room for the file allocation table. (+ other data)
> </lurk>
I see. Although, currently partitioning and initializing a partition
with a FS are two independent steps. So, creating a small partition
will work, although intialization may fail in the second step.
CU, Ingo
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