Hello Uzi,

Tuesday, July 27, 1999, 10:22:27 AM, you wrote:

UP> On my win95a (there is no Hebrew enabled Win95b) one of the reasons
UP> of making smaller partitions was to make block size small so that there
UP> will be no much wasted space due to the fact that each file must use
UP> integer number of blocks.

UP> With the 32bit FAT that I'm going to use in w98, is block size still a
UP> factor?

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; but
FAT32 makes a single cluster smaller (typically 4,096 bytes, or 8
sectors) and reclaims some of the wasted space (FAT16 uses 16 and 32-k
clusters for big drives - 32 and 64 sectors respectively).

If you have and/or create a lot of really small files (<= 2k) then you
should take block size into account; otherwise, with document sizes
steadily climbing to hundreds and thousands KBytes, you can ignore the
small overhead associated with cluster size.

Some file utilities, for example Discover Pro from Nuts&Bolts package,
can display the wasted space.

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