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Well less than 1024MB, but still a lot more than 750MB
by omh 15y ago
Well less than 1024MB, but still a lot more than 750MB
- dspillett 15y agoA bit over 950MiB if you are talking about pure space. Assuming a cluster size of 512 bytes (IIRC FAT32 doesn't need bigger blocks than this until the 2TiB mark) you are going to waste an average of 256 bytes per file (but lets be paranoid a consider the worst case: losing 511 bytes per file. The 10.04 CD contains 1300 files, if we suggest 12.04 is going to double that then you could lose you are only going to drop another Mib or two this way. So 750 does seem to be an odd figure to aim for. They are not even thinking about people overburning on CDs, IIRC 735MiB is further than you can usually push that. Is there any common storage size that divides nearly neatly into 750MiB chunks?