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Re: FAT32/WIN98-What the manual says.
From:
Earl Truss <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:37:55 -0600
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At 06:24 PM 6/29/98 -0400, Herbert Graf wrote:
>
>        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
>
Right.  On average, every file on your PC wastes half of one cluster.  So
just counting the number of files on your system and multiplying by half
the cluster size will give you an approximation of the wasted space.

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