Thread: Discrepancies in amount of free space on XP system
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Old 19-04-2005, 11:20   #2
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Re: Discrepancies in amount of free space on XP system
It all depends on the sector size you are using. Each file has to occupy a number of whole sectors irrespective of its size. A 50 byte file has to occupy a sector and leave the rest of it unusable. Add up all these unusable portions of sectors and that is where the missing space is. Compaction of archived files can reduce this "waste". What sector size have you got as the larger it is, hte more wasted space you can get?
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