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07-06-2003, 03:35 AM
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Re: NTFS & FAT32
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:40:28 -0000, "DeMoN_LaG"
<de_on-lag@co_cast.net> wrote: >Compare 32k clusters vs 4k clusters and tell me which wastes more space. Impossible to answer...without knowing the size of the files. But it IS possible that the 4k would waste more space than the 32k. Have a nice 4th weekend... Trent Help keep down the world population...have your partner spayed or neutered. Trent© |
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07-06-2003, 06:49 AM
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Re: NTFS & FAT32
Trent© <> wrote in
news:: > Impossible to answer...without knowing the size of the files. But it > IS possible that the 4k would waste more space than the 32k. I would like an example of how this would be possible, unless you are taking the extreme case and saying the drive has like 4 files on it and they are all extremely large and require a lot of MFT entries and the MFT grows so large that it wastes space that would be otherwise be free. I can not think of a practical reason why one would prefer 32k clusters over 4k clusters. |
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07-06-2003, 08:32 AM
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Re: NTFS & FAT32
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 05:49:20 -0000, "DeMoN_LaG"
<de_on-lag@co_cast.net> wrote: > I can not think of a practical reason why one would prefer > 32k clusters over 4k clusters. For big sound files, video files or image files. |
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07-06-2003, 03:52 PM
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Re: NTFS & FAT32
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 05:49:20 -0000, "DeMoN_LaG"
<de_on-lag@co_cast.net> wrote: >Trent© <> wrote in >news: : > >> Impossible to answer...without knowing the size of the files. But it >> IS possible that the 4k would waste more space than the 32k. > >I would like an example of how this would be possible, unless you are >taking the extreme case and saying the drive has like 4 files on it and >they are all extremely large and require a lot of MFT entries and the MFT >grows so large that it wastes space that would be otherwise be free. I can >not think of a practical reason why one would prefer 32k clusters over 4k >clusters. There is no example, of course. Your scenario...and my scenario...were both hypothetical. But my scenario could work just as well as your scenario. Bottom line...for both our examples... If the file fits exactly into the cluster, there will be no waste. So size of the cluster itself is not the determining factor when talking about waste. Have a nice 4th weekend... Trent Help keep down the world population...have your partner spayed or neutered. |
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