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Change cluster size on an existing NTFS partition?

#1 User is offline   Curley_Boy 

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Posted 25 November 2004 - 12:34 AM

Can you use Windows 2000's 'convert' tool to alter cluster sizes on drives already formatted with NTFS, or will I need a 3rd party program?

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#2 User is online   jmmijo 

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Posted 25 November 2004 - 01:52 AM

However, there is one caveat on this, if you already have 4K cluster sized partition(s), then there is no need to convert as this is the most effecient size you could want to use for NTFS. I think you only need to use the less effecient 16, 32, 64K cluster sizes on partitions larger then 4TB, which ATM can only be had in very large RAID arrays wink
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Posted 25 November 2004 - 03:07 AM


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#4 User is online   jmmijo 

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Posted 25 November 2004 - 04:40 AM

@APK, now that we have gone totally OT on this thread how about I move my questions over to the caching thread. wink
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Posted 25 November 2004 - 05:09 AM

Well I also asked you an important, to me that is, question about Speedcache, take a gander over at your speed thread please laugh

See you laterz as I'm heading home from work now, a nice 4 day weekend for me, hahahahahaha wink
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