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Date: | Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:24:34 -0400 |
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> > Regarding the space advantages of using 4K... c,mon it's obvious!! Just
> > check out how many small files you have!!! I just did a quick
> find of all
> > files below 4K and I got 1090 just from the Windows directory alone. If
> this
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> I'm trying to clarify what you did here. I just did this search
> -- at most
> 4K of the Windows directory -- and only got 175 files and a lot of them
> were folders. Did you search only the Windows directory or did this
> "include subfolders"? If you included subfolders, you may have also
> included your Temporary Internet Files folder and that folder does contain
> a LOT of small files. When I included subfolders on my work PC,
> I got 1800
> files. Searching all of my 2GB hard drive found only another 3500 files
> under 4K. I'm wondering if the Windows folder is a representative sample
Please be sure to realize that files under 4K are only a small part of the
space wasted, almost every file on your system wastes a small amount of
space, consider a 33K file, with 4K clusters it wastes 3K, with 8K clusters
7K wasted, and on and on. Just though I should mention that. TTYL
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