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From: mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Some more useful(?) info Re: big disks on PC AT clones
Message-ID: <5030@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 00:48:27 GMT
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Summary: 4k clusters in small partitions on big disks



A previous poster on this subject mentioned that even if one had a
large partition (e.g., 30 M) with 2k cluster size, additional partitions
smaller than 10-15 M would automatically default to 4k cluster size
(what a waste!).  To see if this was true on our Zenith 248 (AT clone)
running Zenith MS DOS 3.20 with a 40 MB hd, I found that a 2-byte file
in the 30 MB partition did in fact tie up 2K, but a 2-byte file in the
remaining 10 MB partition tied up 4k!!!  What a bummer!  The poster
(I forget who) suggested a modification to correct this, but I am 
loathe to mess directly with the partition table or the FAT.  Is there
any simple way to format small partitions for 2k clusters?

Michael Volow, M.D.
Dept of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27705
919 286 0411                           mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP