I'm not sure if this will apply in 98 but maybe someone can give it a try.

From 95B on, you can force the size of the clusters with the following switch;

/z:1 will give you   512K clusters (no matter how big the drive)
/z:2 will give you 1020K clusters
/z:4 will give you 2048K clusters

You get the idea, multiply by 512.

HTH

Jose

Don Cooley wrote:

> 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.
>

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> 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