morphscott

I already did explain this in my earlier post, here it goes again- use either Cnetx's Flash Format or SoftWinterTool's Storage Tools and format using FAT32, 512 bytes cluster size, and check back-up FAT. That will eliminate any problems and also provide better space utilization, too. Cnetx's Flash Format will alow you to Fomat using FAT32 but only offers 4k cluster size as its smallest cluster size option. It is not as good as Storage Tools in this case. Thanks. :)

Rustle

You can get the freeware version, StorageTool, from Download.com. Though it seems that Softwinter doesn't offer it on their site, anymore.

http://download.com.com/3000-2178-96...ml?tag=lst-0-3

Russ

sun1004

Does it making the cluster size smaller slow down your SD card or CF card? I thought smaller the cluster size the longer the system to read the data? Does it help to reduce the size of cluster? Axim is slow as is now reading the data off the SD or CF cards now why would you want to make it any slower?

ceej13

Hopefully this will help.
The key thing here is cluster size since that is the smallest chunk of space the file system can allocate for a given file. So with a 16k cluster size, 2 8k files would require 32k of space. FAT16 can only keep track of a fixed number of clusters, so larger device capacity usually means that larger cluster size s required. FAT32 can keep track of a larger number of clusters, so cluster size can be much smaller on higher capacity devices. FAT32 is also more reliable.

If you store a few large files on the device, cluster size is not as significant. However, storing many small files on a device formatted with a large cluster size can waste significant amounts of space. Sector size cannot be modified.

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