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From: | "Robert W. Hazard" <Robert_W_Hazard AT res DOT raytheon DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Default File Size Blocks in Win95 |
Date: | Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:27:45 -0400 |
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The short answer is: File size / allocation of disk space is DOS / FAT driven which is 16 bit, and blocks are 16k. Use or convert to a FAT32 formatted drive (available under certain win97 installations, and win98), and I think they are allocated on a 4k per block basis. Likewise for an NT machine and the NTFS formatting. Sunil V wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have observed that when you create a file in Win 95, even if the file > is of size 1 byte it > takes up 16 K Bytes or 32 K Bytes of secondary memory. File size > allocation is always in terms of multiples of this block size. Is there > a way by which the default block size could be changed to something > lower. > > Thanx in advance, > Regards Sunil > > --
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