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re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?'
Sunday, September 1, 2002 at 10:54 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bobstur
(2225 messages posted)
The reference doesn't say so but it is obviously outdated and directed at hard drives
set up under FAT16 (aka FAT), which has very large cluster size increases with increasing
partition (or drive) size. If your drive C: is currently larger than about 2 GB you
don't have FAT16, you have FAT32 which builds in cluster size much, much slower as
partition size increases.
Therefore, under FAT32, partitioning to reduce wasted space is not anyway near
the FAT16 problem until you have partitions greater than about 8 GB. For a partition
above about 16 GB you should definitely consider repartitioning.
More info: Comparison
of FAT16 and FAT32 File Systems.
Bob Sturtevant
http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
Please reply in the forum and let us know.
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