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Combat Flight Simulator: Uses More Hard Disk Space Than Expected

Article ID: 198136

Article Last Modified on 1/21/2005

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SUMMARY

When you install Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, the files may occupy more hard disk space than you expect.

MORE INFORMATION

The amount of hard disk space used by Combat Flight Simulator depends on the cluster size of your hard disk. Many files installed by Combat Flight Simulator are smaller than 10 kilobytes (KB) in size. On a hard disk with a large cluster size, these files may occupy much more space than they need.

A cluster is the smallest unit of storage on a logical drive.

If the cluster size of your hard disk is 32 KB, a 5 KB file occupies 32 KB (one cluster) of disk space. If the cluster size is 4 KB, a 5 KB file occupies 8 KB (two clusters) of disk space.

For additional information about cluster sizes on a FAT file system, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

67321 FAT Type and Cluster Size Depends on Logical Drive Size

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