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Posted by Brad on June 2, 2008, 10:54 am
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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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> 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.