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Re: Cygwin on FAT16 is very huge !
- From: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy <kahl at informatik dot uni-kl dot de>
- To: Pierre Habraken <Pierre dot Habraken at imag dot fr>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:50:16 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin on FAT16 is very huge !
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Pierre Habraken wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone explain the following strange thing :
>
> When installing Cygwin (downloaded from ftp.funet.fi on 08/23/2002) on a
> NTFS partition (W2000 box), the full release (all packages installed)
> occupies about 700+ MO.
> When installing it on a FAT16 partition (W98 box), the same full
> release uses 1.8+ GO !
>
> I need to install the full release in less than 1 GO.
> How can I do that ?
Well, do not use FAT16 ?
IIRC every thing that is made out of many, many little files
will explode on an big FAT16 filesystem.
This is, because on FAT16 every file uses a integer number of
so-called clusters. If e.g. your cluster-size is 16k, even a
one-byte-file will uses 16k.
(If I am wrong, please someone correct this.)
Bjoern Kahl
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