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Cluster size?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Mon Nov 11 00:18:39 1996

Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 21:15:05 -0800
From: Borg <{vladimip@iceonline.com}>
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Kirill Shtengel wrote:

..............less than 512 MB (You certainly don't want
> to have a single  900M DOS partition - it's a waste of space due to
> the large cluster size).  I also put the Linux root
> partition within the first 512 MB of the hard drive..........

Can you tell us what exactly the size of a DOS
cluster and that of Linux cluster? I know I can
customize inode size when fsck'ing but how do I
specify a custom cluster size? I (foolishly)
assumed cluster size depended on drive architecture
rather than on operating systems.


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