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A question of size
Name: Banfield Date: September 14, 2007 at 05:47:34 Pacific OS: DOS 7.10 CPU/Ram: AMD´s 80486 120 mhz, 32 Product: UMC, version 3.1, 3,3 and
Comment:
Ii guy´s. Ive á question. I have a AMD486 with a 80gb HD divided in 2 patts, 1 bootable DOS7.10 (1gb) and the rest (about 37G formatted) to be filled with .mp3´s files. To overcome the 8 Gb BIOSlimit I´m using Western Digital Disk Manager. For the second one is better: a) few large block sizes b) very mutch shorts block sizes?
Thanks. Osvaldo, Banfield, Buenos Aires. Argentina
Name: cup Date: September 14, 2007 at 11:06:06 Pacific
Reply:
I'd go for the shorter block sizes. Each file will take at least 1 block, even if the file is 1byte, it will take 1 block. Having shorter blocks allows you to have more files so your disk will not fill up so quickly.
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