Saving binary data

[QuantumDoja]

Hi, I want to save the following binary data

00001111000011110000111100000001

It's a 32bit integer, why does it save as 4kb, when it should be well under 1kb???

I need to know what format to save it as. Thanks

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[earthandfire]

This could simply be the file system - depending on your system the minimum allocation unit size for a file could well be 4K.

Hope this helps.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

How are you "saving" it?

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[earthandfire]

I've just check my laptop, XP(SP2) 30G HD NTFS. It has a 4K allocation unit / cluster size. This means that every file will have its space allocated in multiples of 4K and even a 1 byte file will occupy 4K of disk space.

Hope this helps.

 

[QuantumDoja]

thank you, I just made a blank text file and saved it...it was 0 bytes/0 kb, I put a single character in the file, nows its 1 byte/4kb.

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[ThatRickGuy]

The larger the hard drive, the larger the cluster. That's why when you look at the properties on a file there are "Filesize" and "Size on disk" properties.

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[chrissie1]

The larger the hard drive

that used to be true NTFS is now set to 4kb wich is a lot less then win98. they choose the 4kb because it is a good average sin ce more then 90% of your fales are smaller then that.

I'm not making much sense today.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[ThatRickGuy]

I'm not making much sense today.

Agreed.

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