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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: PCDOS 2.1 cluster size querry
Message-ID: <277@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 11:04:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 11:04:52 1986
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In article <1519@brl-tgr.ARPA>, kdale@vaihingen-emh.arpa (Keith Dale) writes:
> Can anyone tell me offhand what the cluster size is for 10MB hard drives
> formatted with IBM's PC-DOS 2.1?  It's either 2k or 4k, but I can't remember
> which.  Thanks!
> 
> Keith M. Dale

It's 4K on a 10MB disk and 8K (!) on a 20MB disk.  So if you have a bunch of
little files ( <4K ) on a 10MB disk and move to a 20MB for more room, you
will be seriously disappointed.  On a 20MB disk, a 1 byte file wastes 8191
bytes of storage!

This is called progress ...

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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