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rowan · 08-28-2003, 05:33 PM

A 1 byte file on my 120Gb drive will take up 32k worth of drive space, since I have the entire drive as a single partition (FAT32). With a 2Gb FAT16 partition it's 64k per cluster.

There's really no efficient way (=acceptable speed) for file systems to use the exact amount of space that is contained within a file. Even the HD itself is broken up into 512 byte sectors, you have to read/write a minimum of 512 bytes at a time.

08-28-2003, 05:33 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	A 1 byte file on my 120Gb drive will take up 32k worth of drive space, since I have the entire drive as a single partition (FAT32). With a 2Gb FAT16 partition it's 64k per cluster. There's really no efficient way (=acceptable speed) for file systems to use the exact amount of space that is contained within a file. Even the HD itself is broken up into 512 byte sectors, you have to read/write a minimum of 512 bytes at a time.