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硬盘高级分区方法(国外英文资料) Advanced partitioning technique Before we start talking about advanced partitioning techniques, it is important to understand the concept of clusters first. File system is an important component of the operating system, now we commonly used Windows operating system can support various file system, such as FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS file system. The file system is an interface between the operating system and driver, when operating system request, while reading a file from the hard disk will request the corresponding file system (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) open the file, and the concept of cluster also appear at this time. Although we know that the sector is the smallest physical disk storage unit, but for DOS operating system, the sector has a much smaller (only 512 bytes), DOS not for addressing numerous sectors. Based on the design of DOS, DOS can only handle 216 disk units, while the disk unit can be a sector or a cluster of sectors. So when using FAT16, the sector must form a cluster, each of which can include 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 sectors. Clusters are the logical concepts used by the operating system, not the physical features of the disk. Directly affects the size of a cluster of hard disk partition table size, although after larger clusters can manage more disk space, and can speed up the read and write, improve data seek time, but due to the increase of volume partition table and the capacity of cluster, can also lead to waste of disk space. For example, a single byte file, on a partition of 2KB per cluster, occupies 2K bytes of disk space; If you are in a partition of 16KB per cluster, this byte file takes up 16KB of space. The space from the end of the file to the end of the file cluster is called the cluster suspension space, and the larger the accumulation of cluster space, the more space the disk wastes. At this point, we need to find a partitioning method that is capable of thinking about performance and having capacity. Such an approach is ofte