Patrick

The figures below are interesting.  If you have a 7GB hard drive you can use
4K clusters.  If you use a 7GB up you can use 8K cluster.  Now when you
figure it out you will find that a 8GB drive with 8K clusters only gives you
someplace in the vicinity of 7GB of useable space.   May be better to use a
7GB drive or to format a 8GB drive to use 7 GB and make use of the 4K
clusters.  The larger the cluster size the more he waste space.  Not exactly
sure of the formula to figure the waste space but there are some shareware
that does that.

Don


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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Patrick C Black
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 1998 10:52 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] FAT32/WIN98-What the manual says.


Ok, we've been debating about FAT 32 for months, here is what the Windows
98 Manual says about FAT 32, and the conversion prog., verbatim.

----Cut from Page 85 of the Microsoft Windows 98 manual (English)----

The table below illustrates the larger partition size and smaller size
available thought the FAT32 files system.  partitions larger than 2
gigabyte (GB) are not supported with FAT16, and paritions smaller than
512MB are not supported with FAT32.

Partition size          FAT16 cluster size              FAT32
cluster size
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------
32 MB(megabytes)                2 KB (kilobytes)                      --

128 MB                  2 KB                          --

256 MB                  4 KB                          --

512 MB                  8 KB                          4 KB

1 GB (gigabyte)         16 KB
  4 KB

2 GB                    32 KB                         4 KB

3 GB - 7 GB             --                            4 KB

8 GB - 16 GB            --                            8 KB

16 GB - 32 GB           --                            16 KB

Larger than 32 GB                          --
  32 KB