how to calculate correctly the cluster size

[Josiah Carlson]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:19:46 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
> 
>>in order to fix that, thank god for partitionmagic).  I don't think you 
>>would be out of line to assume 4k clusters on installations using FAT32 
>>or NTFS.
>>
> 
> 	Heh... Checking just two of my 10 partitions (spread over two
> internal drives, and an external FireWire) I'm running 8K clusters, and
> likely much larger on the FireWire (which has four 40GB partitions!).
> 
> 	W98se/FAT32

Can you defrag your disks?  If so, then perhaps my not being able to 
find a software to defragment disks was a 'feature' of using Windows 
2000, NTFS and non-4k clusters.

I'm curious; did you set the cluster size yourself, or were those 
automatic sizes generated by 98SE?

  - Josiah