>>Wow... 512K is a HUGE cluster size. Are you sure that's right? Most networks I've worked with (NT or Novell) use cluster sizes ranging from 512 bytes to 16K bytes.
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>Hi Al,
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>I know it's huge (I'm not the NetAdmin person, either). I know it's right, however. I checked using the Win32 API call GetDiskFreeSpace(). It returns (among other things), the sectors per cluster and the bytes per sector. The return value I got for our local server was 512K (sectors per cluster * bytes per sector) / 1024.
Hmmm, a cluster size that large would waste immense amounts of disk space - except in 1 circumstance, that being if the server in question has OS-level disk compression turned on.
Is your local server Novell, by any chance? If so, are you certain that a Win32API call will give you the correct values for its file system? My guess is it would return some value(s) but they would not necessarily be correct.
Regards. Al
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