Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:23:37 -0600 (CST)
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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.