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From: KDA101@psuvm.psu.edu (KeithPetto Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,psu.micro
Subject: Re: Cluster Size on disks?
Message-ID: <90098.164830KDA101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 20:48:30 GMT
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In article <90096.104817ESH101@psuvm.psu.edu>, Eric Hvozda
<ESH101@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>My question what is a cluster?  Is is equated with the BLKSIZE on mainframes,
>or is it some kind of I/O buffer size?

A cluster is the smallest amout of space you can alocate to a file.  On the
mainframe here at PSU the smallest amout of space is called Block size as
you have noted, if a file gets larger than one block by even one byte, it
takes up two blocks.
                                       Petto :->

"You weren't like that before the beard."  -- Q

Petto is still an AI program run amuck, his opinions are the result
of a deranged program from a less deranged programmer.
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