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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on September 23, 2003, 11:36:05 pm

Title: This is kinda disturbing
Post by: Liberator on September 23, 2003, 11:36:05 pm

Call up a command prompt in Windows and type "DIR /v".

You will do a double-take when you see how much space is wasted.

A shortcut on my desktop is taking up 8k of disk space.:shaking:

Title: This is kinda disturbing
Post by: ZylonBane on September 24, 2003, 12:18:24 am

Yeah, welcome to the wild wacky world of clusters.

Title: This is kinda disturbing
Post by: Kamikaze on September 24, 2003, 01:05:24 am

Well, most filesystems are like that. Unless you use reiserfs, you will be the victim of slack space.

Title: This is kinda disturbing
Post by: Nico on September 24, 2003, 02:23:12 am

or use defrag, will fill those clusters up more efficiently ( well, it's supposed to )

Title: This is kinda disturbing
Post by: diamondgeezer on September 24, 2003, 08:52:11 am

Defrag seems to achieve very little under XP. And somehow I doubt that this is due to XP being efficient in the first place.

Title: This is kinda disturbing
Post by: StratComm on September 24, 2003, 09:11:53 am

It's a result of the NTFS file system more than WinXP, it supposedly doesn't need the same level of defragging that FAT32 did to remain relatively fast.