--- USER Sat Jan 6 14:57:47 2001 +++ USER.new Thu Jan 18 20:01:26 2001 @@ -522,6 +522,11 @@ extended partitions can be resized, so long as the new extended partition completely contains all logical partitions. +When resizing FAT patitions, you have the option of converting from +FAT16 to FAT32. The conversion can be done "in place", specifying, but not +changing START and END. The cluster size will be adjusted as necessary, with +the limitations as explained in section 6. FILE SYSTEMS. + Note that Parted does not require a file system to be "defragged" (Parted can safely move data around if necessary). It's a waste of time defragging. Don't bother! @@ -1235,6 +1240,10 @@ partition can't be resized to 400Mb, because the cluster size would need to be changed to 16k. However, it can be resized to 600Mb if you use FAT32. The reverse is true for 600Mb FAT32 filesystems. + +As an additional consequence, conversion from FAT32 back to FAT16 is usually +not possible (again, yet), since in most cases FAT16 partitions would need +larger clusters than FAT32. 6.2.1 MS DriveSpace partitions --------------------------------