Cygwin on FAT16 is very huge !

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Sep 2 06:51:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:18:12PM +0200, 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 ?

Don't use FAT16.  Use FAT32 as file system.  FAT16 wastes lots
of space on big drives.

Corinna

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