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From: Paul Shirley <PS AT chocolat DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Lots of small files in DJGPP waste space & should be chained up!
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 95 18:22:28 GMT
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In article <45at40$j3l AT mira DOT sara DOT nl> a4160023 AT horus DOT sara DOT nl "
" writes:

>To reduce the cluster size, you might want to repartition your harddisk 
>using the FDISK program that comes with DOS. (See incomplete table below.)


You might prefer to use FIPS (search for fips12.zip on Linux sites).
This nondestructively splits DOS partitions. Its not trashed any of the
machines we've tried it on so far.

By moving djgpp,forth,brief,wxwin and some libs, to a 127Mbyte partition
I recovered >100Mbyte of space (I moved 90Mbyte of files and freed up
190+ on my 1G partition!)

>Partitions size (M bytes)   cluster size (K bytes). 
>     0-127                          2  <<missed this one!
>

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Paul Shirley: too lazy to change this sig.