Disk Slack Checker

check how much disk space is being wasted
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  • License:
  • Free
  • Publisher Name:
  • KarenWare.com
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.karenware.com
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
  • File Size:
  • 1,009.22K

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Disk Slack Checker Description

Because of the way Windows allocates disk space, almost every file is given more disk space than it needs. This extra space is sometimes called "slack". In most cases, the amount of slack, or wasted, space increases with drive size, especially when the drive is formatted with the FAT16 filesystem. How much of your disk space is being wasted? Karen's Disk Slack Checker will let you know. You'll also discover which filesystem is used on each of your drives, and the drive's "cluster size", or smallest unit of disk space allocation. What's new in this version: Fixed bug that caused program to crash when trying to display an invalid Overhead value. Worked around bug in Windows' GetDriveFreeSpace API call that sometimes causes it to fail if drive letter specification of a local drive is not followed by a trailing backslash ("\").


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