On 27 Jul 99, at 23:10, Max Timchenko wrote:

> The block size is always a factor since it is a great waste of memory
> and disk space to use 1-sector clusters for very large drives;

  On PC drives, one sector is always 512 bytes (0.5K).  I'm not dertain that
any PC hard drive format allows for clusters that are only a single sector.
  Perhaps you meant that there will always be some waste with any format
where clusters are more than one sector?
  [On average, the watsed space per file will be half of a cluster, so many
files (even/especially small ones) with a large cluster size makes for a
*lot* of waste.]
  Even though FAT32 clusters are larger than one sector, they don't need to
get any bigger over the current range of typical partition sizes.  SO the
important thing is that several small FAT32 partitions will waste just as
much space as one big one.


David G

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