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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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Subject: Re: 1k clusters
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 12:22:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 12:22:15 1987
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In article <938@cognos.UUCP> brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell) writes:
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<   Has anyone else ever reformatted their hard disks (20 megabytes or under)
<in 1k clusters?  I just did this tonight, and it seems to work just fine.  I
<saved about 6-700k in the process (I'm running a Fido, so I've got lots of
<files [messages] under the 1k mark).  Anyway, it seems that chkdsk can't
<handle the cluster size.  [I suppose I should mention that I'm using DOS 3.1
<-- for various reasons].

As an experiment, I too made 1K clusters out of my 10MB drives and PC-DOS 3.1's
chkdsk didn't like it.  Every other utility I had did.  So, I just put it back
to 2K clusters and haven't done anything since, even though I use 3.3 now.
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