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At 06:14 AM 12/22/96 -0800, Alexander J. Annala wrote: >I upgraded my TP750Cs tonight from 340 MB to 720 MB using >an IBM OEM Model DB0A-2720 (1400 Cyl, 16 Hd, 63 Sec/Tr) >drive (FDISK claims it is 688.04 MB -- DIR after FORMAT >shows 720+ MB available space. > >Now, I made the mistake of making the entire drive one >partition -- so the cluster size is 16384 bytes. Could >someone send me a table breaking down partition size vs >cluster size -- so I might subdivide my disk optimally >to avoid having a bunch of tiny files allocated in area >with huge cluster size. Offhand, I don't recall the exact table, but... At around the 512 MB, your cluster size slips into 16K--otherwise, its 8K all the way down to about 250 MB, at which point below that its 4K. From 512-ish to a touch over 1 GB, its that 16K--over that 1 GB size (I think the exact is 1024 MB) you're suddenly in the 32K cluster range--ouch! Your partitioning scheme seems like a neat plan, but personally, I think it would be a PITA--I'm all for saving space lost to big cluster sizes, but I'd prefer to minimize the number of drives too. Your mileage may vary, but if it were me, I'd partition into two--you pick the sizes, but 8K clusters is about as reasonable as it gets while still maintaining decent HD partition sizes. ------- Randy Whittle rwhittle@usa.net USC Graduate School of Business http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. - Malcolm X