Some HP-50G Questions

[Claudio L.]

(12-10-2018 11:13 PM)cdmackay Wrote:  thanks very much Claudio, very helpful!

(12-10-2018 04:42 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  * Since most objects in the 50g are small, using a large cluster size is also a waste, so it's best to use a smaller partition if possible. Now that Windows finally mounts all partitions, I think it's wise to create a first partition with 128 MB (FAT16) and the rest in a FAT32 volume for bigger files.

I don't quite get the above; the 50g would only see the first partition, wouldn't it? So why would you do that?

thanks.

Assume you want to limit the number of clusters to 65535. If you do that with a 2G partition , you end up with huge cluster size to store thy files. As a result you'll waste 99% of the space. If you create a small partition, you can store the same amount of small files, and you still have the rest of the card for other uses in the second partition, just not for the calculator or I should say only when using SDFiler.