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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vyper on June 30, 2003, 02:50:05 pm

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: vyper on June 30, 2003, 02:50:05 pm

Something odd is happening - the .gif files for my buttons are giving very wild file sizes:
i.e. on a windows attribute - Size: 739bytes, Size on disk: 8KB.

:wtf:

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: ZylonBane on June 30, 2003, 02:55:38 pm

You're joking, right?

No?

Seriously?

Oye vey.

Okay, ummmm... are we going to have to explain the concept of clusters and sectors here?

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: DragonClaw on June 30, 2003, 03:22:35 pm

Bah, you're lucky, your clusters are 8KB, mine are 16KB :p

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: Nico on June 30, 2003, 03:24:55 pm

that's why you make partitions, DC :p

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: vyper on June 30, 2003, 03:33:36 pm

So you're trying to say the **** clusters on fat32 is why I'm getting this? Oh boyo...

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: Whitelight on July 01, 2003, 11:45:36 am

Each partition will have a drive letter assigned,  they go from A to Z .

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 01, 2003, 12:03:02 pm

Cheers for that, White. So, Vyper, time for an NTFS conversion?

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: vyper on July 01, 2003, 12:04:40 pm

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Cheers for that, White. So, Vyper, time for an NTFS conversion?

Well, maybe. I copied one of the files over and it only went down to 4KB, :wtf: ack we'll see what happens

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 01, 2003, 12:09:26 pm

Just remember that you cannae convert from NTFS back to FAT32. It's the law.

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: vyper on July 01, 2003, 12:12:56 pm

If necessary I'll bump the files over to my boot drive thats on NTFS. I wanted to keep my documents/stuff drive FAT32 just in-case somehow win2k takes a dump and I can't get it back.

Title: Re: Fireworks MX
Post by: Xelion on July 01, 2003, 10:11:46 pm

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Originally posted by vyper
i.e. on a windows attribute - Size: 739bytes, Size on disk: 8KB.

since when was it 8Kb...mines 4Kb :nod:

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: Xelion on July 01, 2003, 10:35:52 pm

You could have been using the old FAT32 System, there is an update for it in the Service Pack for your OS

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Microsoft
Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98, and Windows 95 OSR2 also support the FAT32 file system.

which is what the links says...thats why depending on your HDD will show the cluster size as 4/8/16 Kb etc...

Cluster Information (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310525)

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Venom
that's why you make partitions, DC :p

Thats why u do that (8GB Partitions or less I think)

Title: Fireworks MX
Post by: Nico on July 02, 2003, 02:37:48 am

?
no size thinguy, you cut your disk in two equal partitions, clusters are divided per 2, it's that simple.
Of course, I have so much space I don't care much for cluster size, I do partitions coz it's convenient and safer.