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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1622403" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>"bobtomay" is correct. The terminology is called "cluster slack". The larger the drive, the larger the cluster size and greater the slack becomes. The FAT file system is very wasteful especially as you apply it to large partitions or drives. HFS and NTFS both use small cluster sizes regardless of drive size. Also, FAT is a non journaling file system and highly prone to errors. Both HFS and NTFS are journaled file systems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1622403, member: 46727"] "bobtomay" is correct. The terminology is called "cluster slack". The larger the drive, the larger the cluster size and greater the slack becomes. The FAT file system is very wasteful especially as you apply it to large partitions or drives. HFS and NTFS both use small cluster sizes regardless of drive size. Also, FAT is a non journaling file system and highly prone to errors. Both HFS and NTFS are journaled file systems. [/QUOTE]
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