NTFS cluster size size of the partition of the limit?

Is there a limit on partition size maximum for partitions with cluster size less than 4 KB? For example, if I don't want to use the cluster of 2 KB size, can I use it on, say, the 80 GB partition? Or file system corruption occur?

25/08/2010 04:54, achlebek wrote:

Is there a size limit of maximum score for partitions with clusters
size less than 4 KB? For example, if I don't want to use the cluster of 2 KB
size, can I use it on, say, the 80 GB partition? Or it will happen
corruption of the file system?

In theory the maximum NTFS volume size is 4294967295 clusters, unlese you use disks GPT (which cannot use Windows XP 32-bit) you will hit the limitations of MBR (partition table) of 2 terabytes, until you hit the maximum NTFS volume size.  The MBR partition table to attack 4294967295 sectors effectively with disks being arranged in 512-byte sectors MBR disks are limited to a maximum size of 2 TB.

Why the hell would you want to use a non standard 2K cluster size?  I think that it is simply and just a bad idea and that you should allow the operating system to format the drive to use size by default NTFS clusters.

John

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