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re: How partitioning helps?
Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 1:38 am
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Posted by Yap (1 messages posted)

According to the definition of slack space, there are some hard disk space not used up in the allocated clusters. For example, one file I searched up using dir /v/p showed a file that is 266 bytes big actually used 16 clusters (or 16384 bytes) of space. I think I know why, but can't explain :(

Written in response to:: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?' (Il: Sunday, September 1, 2002 at 10:27 am)

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Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?' (Il: Sun, Sep 1, 2002, 10:27 am)

re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?' (Bobstur: Sun, Sep 1, 2002, 10:54 am)

re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?' (Dale: Sun, Sep 1, 2002, 11:01 am)

re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?' (Temporal: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 7:59 pm)

re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?' (Oh_dear: Sun, Nov 17, 2002, 9:01 am)

re: How partitioning helps? (Yap: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 1:38 am)

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