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Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze

• Posted by Bernard Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Jul 11, 2004
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Irv:
I found this on the internet at
  http://www.systemsmedic.com/SoftwareEdu2.htm

 This is probably what is happening :

" Under the FAT system, files are always allocated an integral number
 of clusters. On a 1.2GB hard disk with clusters of 32K, a text file
 containing only the words "hello, world" may have a directory listing
 of just 12 bytes, but the file will actually take up 32K of disk space.
 The unused part of the cluster is called slack. Small files may have
 slack equal to almost an entire cluster; on average, a file will have
 half a cluster of slack. "

Bernie