Mail Archives: opendos/1997/01/27/17:59:24
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> >
> > My program consistently shows that: If you have a cluster size that is
> > larger than 4k, you are wasting too much disk space. 4k clusters
> > waste no more than 3% on average. I've done extensive testing on a
> > great many computers to get these results too.
>
> Hmmm, did that myself when I got my first 540m HD, I wrote up a QBasic
> program which tallied up the sizes of the files, then presented me with a
> breakdown of _cluster_size VS _program_size VS _wasted_space. As a result
> I have a tiny D: drive in order to convince format to produce an 8k
> cluster, which proved to be my least waster cluster size. I also set up a
> friends 1.2gig and he has a 800meg main, and a 400meg D:, even though the
> main uses 8k's, it's fairly ok because most of his programs are those big
> Win95 space occupiers.
Drives between 256 and 512M are 8k so the 800 should be 16k clusters
and the 400 should be 8k. From what I've seen analyzing Win'95
partitions, the file wastage is the same. Unless there are BIG files
taking up the majority of space on one of those drives, then the
cluster wastage is still a concern. I suggest testing out the wastage
with your program or with 4DOS DIR /SUK.
TTYL
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