On 22 Sep 2001, at 2:22, Tomas Santos wrote:

> You Consider that: the larger the partition, the bigger the
> cluster!
>
> By partitioning a large disk you reduce the cluster size, thus for
> a 182 bytes shortcut to NotePad, the file would use a smaller amt
> of space, since a 1 byte or 32000  bytes file will use the same
> amt of clusters(1 in this case). That's an awful lot of wasted
> space when you start adding it up, no?.
>
> Inconsequential nowadays, when in comparison to $145.00 for a 2.1
> Gig HDD in '98 & $45.00 for a 15 Gig today, eh?
>
> Guess you don't have to partition; waste makes haste!<g> MHO &
> logical observation.
>
> tomas santos [log in to unmask]

  All very true -- in the world of FAT16.  FAT32 allows for so many
more clusters per partition that cluster size is able to stay quite
small.  (NTFS, which I prefer (especially in a business environment)
uses an alternate allocation scheme so that cluster size is not an
issue.)

David Gillett

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