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Article #616Re: Barracuda sector size
From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00
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Paul Hill said, >>Thanks for this - I hadn't realised that HDtoolbox had been upgraded with >>WB3.1. > It has, but you'd hardly notice. Still looks like a 1.3 application. And still runs without *any* extra libraries etc. which is essential for a critical tool that may be used on a totally broken system. > The block size is for the filesystem to use, it's got nothing to do with > the physical disk parameters. Using a bigger block size makes loading > large files quicker at the expense of wasting disk space (e.g. with a 2K > block size the smallet amount of space a 1 byte file will use is 2K). A 1 byte file would use 4K, 2K for the file contents and 2K for the header block. Neil -- Neil Bothwick, Warrington, England - http://www.wirenet.co.uk Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1160fd,d37608cee901cea5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1160fd,public From: "Neil Bothwick" <postmaster@wirenet.co.uk> Subject: Re: Barracuda sector size Date: 1999/04/16 Message-ID: <918.775T2055T184661neil@wirenet.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 466914631 References: <812.771T1915T12172091@chimera.u-net.com> <1261.772T370T10974149brad@pianosa.demon.co.uk> <1675.772T1392T13211948@chimera.u-net.com> <2407.774T2264T13175149paul@lagernet.clara.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: news@u-net.net X-Info: The UK's first Amiga-only Internet Access Provider X-Trace: newsr2.u-net.net 924218539 194.119.174.218 (Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:22:19 BST) X-Real-Host: 194.119.174.218 Organization: Wirenet Amiga Internet NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:22:19 BST Newsgroups: demon.tech.amiga