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In article <30A15729.AC1@qbc.clic.net> Martin Pineault <osg@qbc.clic.net> writes:
>Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 17:19:37 -0800

>Did you know that the bigger drive mean the more space wasted.  And they are 
less efficient at handling small files.

>Take a look at this..

>Drive partition size    :       Cluster size
>16MB    to 128MB                        2K
>128MB   to 256MB                        4K
>256MB   to 512MB                        8K
>512MB   to 1GB                          16K
>1GB     to 2GB                          32K

>Dos FAT support up to 2GB only.

>This mean that a file of 2 bytes (yes two bytes) occupies 2K on a 100MB HD, 
and the same file occupies 32K on a 1.2GB.  Wow what a waste.  Imagine if you 
have 1,000 file with less than 15K, this will take twice the space needed on 
your HD.  Because a cluster can only be>occupied by one file at the time.  So 
if you have a 67K file size, it will take 96K of real space on a 32K cluster 
size HD of 1.2GB.

>If you want to know how many space wasted you've got on your drive.. try 
the following:

>at the native dos prompt type:

>chkdsk (to see how many file you've got on your HD and what's the size of your
>cluster)

>Let say half of the file on your HD use half of the last cluster they are using.

>ex.: I have 6,000 files: 6,000 / 2 = 3,000 X 32K = 96,000

>WOWWWW 93MB lost in my HD for the fun of it..

>Keep those partition drive to less than 512MB (8K cluster), unless you use 
HPFS or NTFS.  Or if you have only COUPLE BIG FILE on that drive and NEED THE 
SPACE FOR IT.

OR --- You can DriveSpace (DRVSPACE) a single large 2 GB partition, and your 
files will be cleverly optimized to NOT waste space.  The reason this works is 
that all the DRVSPACE'd files are compressed into a single file.  (You may 
need several logical DriveSpace drives within that large partition; there is a 
limit to the size of a DriveSpace drive.)

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