>From: Max Timchenko <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Hello Dave,
>
> >-< On 27 Jul 99, at 23:10, I wrote:
>
> > 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;
>
> >-< and you commented about this on 28 Jul 99:
>
>DG>   On PC drives, one sector is always 512 bytes (0.5K).  I'm not certain
>that
>DG> any PC hard drive format allows for clusters that are only a single
>sector.
>I'm not certain, either. Maybe FAT32 does.
==========
The smallest cluster on hard drives was 1K on 10 and 20 meg drives or
partitions. Mine is an old 329 meg and uses 32K clusters.

Larger partitions used larger clusters until FAT32 which uses 4K.
=====Korny=====
>
>DG>   Perhaps you meant that there will always be some waste with any
>format
>DG> where clusters are more than one sector?
>And on floppy, too [512 bytes sector, no clusters] : try creating 3000
>1-byte files...
This will fill up your 1.44 Mb disk: [3k x 512 = 1536k > 1440k]
>taking real size only 3 k... looks like 99.791% wasted space 8-(

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Actually, in -any- root directory there is space for 512 file entries-
period- which it is not a good idea to put any unnecessary files in a root.
Sub-directories are actually not managed as trus directories. They are
managed as files and can have more files since the file can grow- and become
fragmented.
fragmented.

I overcome the problem by zipping any files I don't need at the moment. Thus
waste is limited to 1/2 cluster per ZIP which may eliminate 6 or 8 wasted
clusters. Ain't winzip great!
=====Korny=====>


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