Tom Kelly wrote:

> I don't have FAT32.  But I thought it used allocation units of 4K up to 8G?
>
> Someone please enlighten me.
>
> Tom Kelly
> ----------
> > From: Jose E. Dominguez <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [PCSOFT] Swap file
> > Date: Friday, February 20, 1998 9:32 PM
> >
> >, running FAT32 with
> > 1,024 bytes in each allocation unit.

Your right, that's the default size. However, you can force the size you like
when you format. For example, C:\>format c: /s /Z:1, or Z:2, or Z:3.  Z:1 will
give you 512K clusters, Z:2 1024K clusters, Z:4 2048K clusters. Since the hard
drive is only 1.33GB I initially set the cluster size to 2048K but then decided
I needed more space so I set it at 512K and that turned out to be too small for
the drive, defrag never finished and the performance was not all that great. I
then set it at 1024K and that seems to be working nicely. I have a 640MB hard
drive and that one I set to 512K and it works good and I can squeeze a lot out
of it.

BTW, I set the swap file on my laptop to 100MB, too soon for results yet.

HTH

Jose