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This partition table shows
you what I mean. If you make your new 40GB hard drive all one large partition
under FAT32, then your cluster size will be 32K. That means that each file
you store on your hard drive will take a minimum of 32K of hard drive space.
So, a small 2K file will take the entire cluster of 32K to be stored. With
the typical sized files that you and I use on our hard drives, that could
mean a waste of up to 40% of that hard drive. So, if you thought you were
buying a 40GB hard drive, you may find that you can only use about 24GB of
that hard drive.
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