brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell) (06/19/87)
Has anyone else ever reformatted their hard disks (20 megabytes or under)
in 1k clusters? I just did this tonight, and it seems to work just fine. I
saved about 6-700k in the process (I'm running a Fido, so I've got lots of
files [messages] under the 1k mark). Anyway, it seems that chkdsk can't
handle the cluster size. [I suppose I should mention that I'm using DOS 3.1
-- for various reasons].
Has anyone else run into this sort of problem? Are there any patches
around? Are there any other areas where I can expect trouble due to the
reduced cluster size, or increased FAT size? Any help or pointers would be
appreciated. Thanks.
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(613) 738-1440brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) (06/25/87)
In article <938@cognos.UUCP> brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell) writes:
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< Has anyone else ever reformatted their hard disks (20 megabytes or under)
<in 1k clusters? I just did this tonight, and it seems to work just fine. I
<saved about 6-700k in the process (I'm running a Fido, so I've got lots of
<files [messages] under the 1k mark). Anyway, it seems that chkdsk can't
<handle the cluster size. [I suppose I should mention that I'm using DOS 3.1
<-- for various reasons].
As an experiment, I too made 1K clusters out of my 10MB drives and PC-DOS 3.1's
chkdsk didn't like it. Every other utility I had did. So, I just put it back
to 2K clusters and haven't done anything since, even though I use 3.3 now.
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