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Re: Logical drive allocation
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Jun Qian <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:37:42 +1000
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No. the block size will stay at 4K. However, put data file on a separate
partition is much safer idea.

J Qian

Uzi Paz wrote:

> On my win95a (there is no Hebrew enabled Win95b) one of the reasons
> of making smaller partitions was to make block size small so that there
> will be no much wasted space due to the fact that each file must use
> integer number of blocks.
>
> With the 32bit FAT that I'm going to use in w98, is block size still a
> factor?

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