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re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?'
Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 9:38 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Elise Young
(2 messages posted)
The whole purpose of resizing the partitions was to reduce the cluster size ( wasting
less space on small files. At 30 gigs the cluster size was at 8kb, but afterresizing,
the cluster size is now 4kb. Partition Magic set these limits. My question is what
is the point of resizing a partition if I am going to have to manually make the clusters
larger just so scandisk will recognise them? Any pros out there who know how to work
around these flaws?
On Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 6:34 pm, Steve wrote:
>Puter stores info. on the harddrive, which has many clusters that have a address
>so info. can be found. If
>you save "one word" it will be sent to one of these clusters, and that cluster will
>be off limits to any thing
>else. So that small piece of data now ties up one cluster of bytes. I don't remember
>how many bytes are in a cluster and may have not been totally accurate,
>but this is close to your answer.
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