Re: Facing the End ;-)

> <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