How do I find the cluster size of my NTFS volumes?

[Aloke Prasad]

on WinXPPro with 40 gig and 250 gig ATA drives, the 250 gig being a single
partition.

Diskeeper lite ver 7.0.418.0 says that NTFS volumes with cluster size
greater than 4 kB are not supported by it.

How do I find the cluster size of my volumes?

Thanks.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

on WinXPPro with 40 gig and 250 gig ATA drives, the 250 gig being a single
partition.

Diskeeper lite ver 7.0.418.0 says that NTFS volumes with cluster size
greater than 4 kB are not supported by it.

How do I find the cluster size of my volumes?

The real easy way is to create a 1 character .txt file on your desktop
(using notepad), and look at its properties. 'size on disk' = 1 cluster.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run cmd

Run chkdsk c:

At the end is a report, you want to look at "bytes in each allocation unit",
this is the cluster size. 4096 bytes (or 4k) is the norm for an NTFS file
system.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Aloke Prasad]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314878&Product=winxp

tells me the default cluster size. Still, how do I find the cluster size of
volume on a PC that I did not set up?

Any utility in WinXP that shows this?

 

[Ken Blake]

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on WinXPPro with 40 gig and 250 gig ATA drives, the 250 gig being a
single partition.

Diskeeper lite ver 7.0.418.0 says that NTFS volumes with cluster size
greater than 4 kB are not supported by it.

How do I find the cluster size of my volumes?

Find a small text file anywhere on your drive, right-click on it,
and choose properties. "Size on Disk" will tell you.