In a partition slightly smaller than 8MB, formatted FAT12, clusters are 4 sectors. There is one free cluster. Windows XP can create a file of size 2048 bytes. Linux cannot create a file. I tried to do it in Linux first, and there is no recycle bin or System Volume Information or other garbage. Just two existing files and, after using Windows XP, a third file. At first I guessed that it's because Linux wants to do I/O in multiples of the memory controller's page size (4096 bytes) but now I'm not sure if that's a red herring. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
