Re: inodes and clusters (Re: Currant Bun)

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From: Trevor Best
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:00

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Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com> wrote in message
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> * Trevor Best wrote:
> > Actually, ext2 does sometimes require degragmentation and there are
> > defraggers out there for it. As for inodes, in DOS/Windows speak this is
the
> > cluster size, smaller clusters being more efficient on space, e.g. using
a
> > cluter size (or inode density) of 32K means that a file of 1 byte big
will
> > use 32K on the disk, no other file may use this cluster. I once resized
a
> > dos partition from 1031MB to 1019MB, this reduced the cluster size by
half
> > (dos doesn't give you options on clusters, just uses the smallest it can
> > cope with), although reducing my capacity by 11MB it freed over 100MB of
> > space..
>
> No. inodes aren't anything to do with cluster size.  inodes say *how
> many files you can have* on a partition, cluster size or block size
> say how much space a 1 byte file will take.

Point taken, but FAT/VFAT/FAT32 and NTFS have no concept of this, they go by
clusters and that determines the maximum number of files that be held on a
disk.

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From: "Trevor Best" <trevor@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: inodes and clusters (Re: Currant Bun)
Date: 2000/01/22
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