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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 Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC. |
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