Subj : Thin client PC to run MS-
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Nov 30 2025 10:17:06

RM> > Maybe I'm thinking of earlier systems but if I recall there was a huge
  > > storage waste reduction if you went to partitions of less than about 32 gi
  > > I recall dividing a 160 gig drive into 5 drives.

PF>It all depended on the size of the files you stored - with 4k clusters, if yo
  >ad a ton of files smaller than 4K, each one would occupy 1 4k cluster on the
  >d disk. If you had hundreds of small files, the wasted space would add up.

PF>Smaller partitions meant smaller cluster sizes and more efficient storage of
  >ll files.

I was probably thinking about FAT 16 and on larger drives that used
a cluster size of up to 64kb on 2 to 4 gig partitions..

And the file size wasn't the only consideration because the final
cluser for the file was not filled and so would waste up to that
much space for every file on the drive.

Even FAT 32 used 16 kb clusters on partitions/drives over 16 gig.

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