From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 22:37:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA07707 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA07701 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA02340; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:37:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:37:38 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: "Michael G." cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Size In-Reply-To: <199901100629.GAA119060@out4.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Michael G. wrote: > By cluster I was using the minimum data storage size > measurement used by FAT-16, FAT-32, HPFS, and NTFS. i.e. > for a FAT-16 based drive the minimum cluster size is based > on the size of a FAT partition. Now USF uses partitions to > mean the same thing..so I was looking for a cluster > standard. I believe that a UFS fragment would correspond to a FAT cluster. The default value for fragments is 1024 bytes and is independent of the filesystem size. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message