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Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?'
Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 12:35 pm
Posted by Elise Young
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about Why
do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?:
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re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?'
Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 5:40 pm
Posted by bello
(62 messages posted)
ok.. whats your question?
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re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?'
Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 6:34 pm
Posted by Steve
(590 messages posted)
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.
On Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 12:35 pm, Elise Young wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?:
>
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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
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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re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?'
Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 10:19 pm
Posted by jr
(1 messages posted)
You might want to switch to XP with NTFS partitions.
Does better job of managing small files.
On Thursday, September 12, 2002 at 9:38 pm, Elise Young wrote:
>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?
>
>
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