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From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cluster Size on disks?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 18:18:36 GMT
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>     The cluster size depends explicitly on the software used to format them.
>For example, with MS-DOS 2.1, the cluster size on the hard disk was 8k.  At
>MS-DOS 3, the cluster size dropped to the current 2k.  I don't know if it is

I had my ST-225 divided into 4 partitions when I first got it. (Just exploring
the options) When I realized that I was getting 4K clusters, I repartitioned
to one and my cluster size went to 2K. (dos 3.21) 	-ted-

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