From: "Robert W. Hazard" <Robert_W_Hazard AT res DOT raytheon DOT com>
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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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