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| Description | After Creating New Partition | Reformat, to Adjust Cluster Size and Reset Directory Entries |
| OEM ID: Bytes per sector: Sectors per cluster: Reserved sectors at beginning: FAT copies: Root directory entries: Total sectors on disk: Sectors per FAT: | IBM 20.0 512 1 1 2 512 11270 (11270) ** 44 | IBM 20.0 512 64 1 2 512 11270 (11235) ** 1 |
| Volume label: File system ID: | DRIVE-E FAT16 | PQ-MAGIC FAT12 |
**(xxxxx) is DOS report
This abbreviated listing shows how Norton DiskEdit reports the boot record before and after tweaking a partition created with PartitionMagic. Note the changes in sectors per cluster, sectors per FAT and file system ID.
| Before | After | |
| 5,708,288 5,708,288 | 5,734,400 5,734,400 | bytes total disk space* bytes available on disk* |
| 512 11,149 11,149 | 32,768 175 175 | bytes in each allocation unit total allocation units on disk available allocation units on disk |
| *Neither figure reports the following space utilization: | ||
| 512 18,432 18,432 16,384 53,760 5,708,288 5,762,048 | 512 512 512 16,384 17,920 5,734,400 5,752,320 | bytes in boot record bytes in FAT1 bytes in FAT2 bytes in directory subtotal Chkdsk report (above) (same as Norton's DOS Report of sectors x 512) |
Summary of a DOS Chkdsk report before and after adjusting the cluster size in a disk drive partition.
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