Hi,

The cluster size in FAT32 depends on the size of the partition/volume, not
the entire size of the drive.

Partition Size Cluster Typical Amount
Size of Wasted Space
Fat 32
512 MB - 8191 MB 4K 4%
8192 MB - 16383 MB 8K 10%
16384 MB - 32767 MB 16K 25%
Larger than 32768 MB 32K 40%

So a 4G volume will have a cluster size of 4K. NTFS also uses 4K clusters as
the default for all sizes, though it can be changed it's not necessary.

More information:
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.com> wrote in message
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> I have used partition magic on my NTFS system twice now. Not Bad. I
> have media Center and I made a 4 G FAT32 partition I'm going to put 98se
> or linux on and I made a 10 G partition NTFS for XP x64 pro. What is the
> default cluster size of FAT32 on a 200 GB HD? Probably huge, if it can
> handle it. Does NTFS have a cluster designed filesystem? Is it a chained
> fs like FAT32? I guess I'm wondering the difference in FAT32 and NTFS?
>
> Bill
>
>