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From: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: confused: text files wastes space? How to correct it?
Message-ID: <11103@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 89 20:54:26 GMT
References: <4295@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <495@megatek.UUCP>
Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <495@megatek.UUCP> hollen@spot.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
> ...
>Try increasing
>your file sizes by multiples of 512 and see when the next jump in actual
>size allocated happens and you should then know what the allocation
>unit size is on your disk.
>

Just run chkdsk, it will tell you your cluster (allocation unit) size.
I have a 40meg hd running under DOS 4, the cluster size is 2K.

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