Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

 

Manual Partition Operations

 

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3. 

Enter the new root size (a number of elements) in the Resize Root 
window. 

 

 

FAT16 can contain a maximum of 65,520 elements. 

4. By 

clicking 

OK

, you'll add the pending operation of FAT16 partition root 

resizing (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation. See 
2.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»). 

Smaller clusters (see Appendix C «Glossary» — «Cluster») might significantly 
reduce disk space losses related to the fact that any file occupies at least one 
cluster/block. 

Disk space losses depending on cluster size are shown in Appendix A (see A.9.2  
«FAT16» — 

However, reducing FAT32 partition cluster size might increase the space 
occupied by the file allocation table (FAT) and slow down file access. 

1. 

Select a disk and partition from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite 
main window.  

2.  Execute operation of cluster resizing by selecting Disk   Advanced   

Change cluster size or a similar item in the Advanced  sidebar list, or by 

clicking 

 Change the cluster size of the selected partition on the toolbar 

(or selecting it from partition or the graphical representation context 
menu). 

3. In 

the 

Cluster Size window, you can: 

(1)  see the current cluster size of selected partition. 
(2)  see average statistics of disk space losses for the selected partition 

and different cluster size. 

 

Some cluster sizes might become unavailable for a partition because there will 

not be enough clusters to store the actual partition data.