Partitioning And Formatting Your Drive Using The Fat16 Convention For - IBM OPTIONS SCSI Manual Del Usuario

For more information on partition size limits for FAT16, see "Selecting a
primary partition or logical drive size".
2. If you choose to make your new drive a startup drive, see your OS/2 User's
Guide for more information on installing OS/2 on your new drive.
If you use the DOS-based Fixed Disk Setup Program (FDISK) utility to
partition your drive and you are using the maximum partition size of 2.14 GB,
you must enter the partition size as 2047 MB. (FDISK uses the software
industry binary-base number system, where one binary MB equals 1048576
bytes.)
Partitioning and formatting your drive using the FAT16
convention for DOS and Windows 3.x
The largest partition size that you can create using the 16-bit file allocation
table (FAT16) is approximately 2.14 GB.
If you are installing a drive larger than 2.14 GB and you are using the FAT16
convention, you must create multiple partitions.
To create multiple partitions, do the following:
v Select a primary partition size, and create the primary partition.
v Create an extended logical partition using the remaining space on the drive.
v Create one or more logical drives in the extended partition.
If you are using FDSIK to create partitions and logical drive, and you want to
create the maximum-size primary partition or logical drive (2.14 GB), you must
specify the size as 2047 MB. (FDISK uses the software industry binary-base
number system where one binary MB equals 1048576 bytes).
Note: If you are installing the hard disk drive that will contain your primary
partition, install the operating system as part of the installation
procedure.
Selecting a primary partition or logical drive size
Base your partitions and partition sizes on how you use your computer:
v Use a larger partition size for the convenience of having many files in one
directory structure or for large databases.
v A smaller partition size makes better use of space if you have a large
number of small files, such as text files.
FDISK assigns space on a hard disk drive in clusters. A cluster is the smallest
unit of space on the drive that your operating system can address using the
FAT convention. The operating system assigns a file to one or more clusters.
Even a very small file uses a full cluster.
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