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| Saturday, February 19, 2022 18:49 PM
| pez:
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| Any freeware, plea[s]e, to format in ntfs with an alu of 512
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| Saturday, February 19, 2022 22:06 PM
| Shadow:
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Thank you.
ALU 4,096 B.
pez
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| Sunday, February 20, 2022 02:16 AM
| Mike Dee:
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| GParted perhaps? <
https://gparted.org/livecd.php>
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Thank you.
ALU of 4,096 B.
pez
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| Sunday, February 20, 2022 08:17 AM
| B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson:
| The command line Format program in Win10 [...] you cannot
| format partitions larger than 2 TByte
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| Another way [...] using the Win10 command line Convert [...]
| this approach is limited to partition sizes up to 2 GByte.
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| As Shadow already pointed out, deviating from the recommended
| allocation unit size is not recommended and (because of the
| way NTFS stores files smaller than the allocation unit size)
| using small allocation units provides no benefits.
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Thank you.
Here are the results:
Well, under W10 and after copying [with FastCopy, of course] for
about 3 days:
~ 5,400,000 files, and
~ 520,000 folders
to a HD of 4 TiB pre-formatted as FAT32, and excluding a few
files which are of greater than 4 GB in size, this resulted to:
1.82 TB : Size
2.94 TB : Size on disk
1.12 TB : Waste, that is
61.5 % of Size was wasted.
But today my wife found this:
https://lifehacker.com/format-a-usb-drive-as-ntfs-in-windows-xp-5195783
after of which I succeeded to format it under WXP32, with
ALU of 512 B.
How many days will the copying last ?
: )
Thank you all !
pez