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From: jsin@island.SEAS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Cluster Sizes in 15MB partition
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Date: 5 Jan 89 05:07:32 GMT
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Reply-To: jsin@island.SEAS.UCLA.EDU (John Sin)
Organization: UCLA School Of Engineering & Applied Science
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I have a problem I hope some one can help solve:

Setup:  25 Original IBM ATs (running at 6MHz).
        IBM PC-DOS 3.2
        20 MB hard disk, 5 MB of which is partitioned off as
        a non-DOS partition, to be used for Minix.

Problem: Since DOS partition is less than 20MB, format program
        uses 8K cluster size for allocating files.
        I also have a (commercial) program that generates/utilizes
        over 1,000 files that are less than 2KB each.  Because of
        this, I run out of disk space rather quickly.  Seems to me
        there must be a way to reclaim the "lost" 6 MB or so of disk
        space.

Question: Is there any way that I can change the cluster size to 2K?  
        Is this even possible or advisable?  Please tell me whether 
        or not this is possible, and if so, how? (yes, I can take the 
        techie talk. I can also use Norton utilies fairly well :-)
       
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
John (Jonghoon) Sin       (Above opinions are my own and etc, etc, etc...)
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