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Re: Cluster Sizes on FAT partitions?



On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Randal J. Whittle wrote:

> Does anyone know how the file cluster size breakdown varies with the size of
> a partition?  I know it goes something like this:
> 
>         Size                Cluster Size
>    up to 128 MB         2K
>     128 - 256 MB        4K
>     256 - ? MB            8K
>         ???                   16K
> 
>         I can't remember how exactly it breaks down after 256 MB size
> partitions.  I am particularly interested in much larger
> partitions--approaching 2 Gigabytes in size.

Well, over 512M is 32k. I think the 16k clusters are from 256M up. The 
particulars under there I have no idea....