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Old June 2nd 08, 03:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Brad
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Default Formatting a 20G HDD, One Partition, With Small Size Clusters

Hi,

Thanks to everyone who replied.

I decided to partition the HDD into two 10G partitions which resulted in
8K clusters after each partition was formatted. The second partition is
logical drive "D:".

Brad


On Fri, 30 May 2008 11:35:26 GMT, Brad wrote:

Hi,

I installed a 20G HDD in my Windows 98se computer. With one partition,
I formatted it. The results is 16K byte clusters. With a FAT32 system,
a 32 bit number ("index") can represent around 4.3G. This in effect should
allow around 4 billion clusters maximum.

The major reason for a smaller cluster size is to reduce waste of disk
space. Example, if you wrote a 1K byte file to the HDD, the free space will
be reduced by 16K (15K wasted).

How can I format this 20G HDD in such a way to produce smaller clusters
without adding partitions?

Thanks in advance, Brad

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