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Bomb Bloke

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Check Cluster Size For Exiting Hdd?
« on: May 17, 2008, 02:31:00 AM »
Typically, the cluster corruption issue doesn't cause slow down or anything like that. It causes bulk file deletion.

The only X-Box app that formats using the larger cluster size is XBPartitioner. If you didn't use that then odds are your clusters are too small.

You can test the cluster size by putting a 1kb or smaller file on the partition in concern, then seeing how much the free space has gone down by. Whatever the amount is should be equal to your cluster size.
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stu38037

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Check Cluster Size For Exiting Hdd?
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2008, 09:11:00 AM »
QUOTE(Bomb Bloke @ May 17 2008, 11:07 AM) View Post

Typically, the cluster corruption issue doesn't cause slow down or anything like that. It causes bulk file deletion.

The only X-Box app that formats using the larger cluster size is XBPartitioner. If you didn't use that then odds are your clusters are too small.

You can test the cluster size by putting a 1kb or smaller file on the partition in concern, then seeing how much the free space has gone down by. Whatever the amount is should be equal to your cluster size.


Thanks for the hint, I figured it out using Evox. My cluster size is indeed 16k. So I will have to reformat with 32k clusters using XBpartitioner...
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