300MB of maps takes up 2GB

[UKMuFFiN]

First off, I love my new Nokia N800, I find a new use for it every day.

Maemo maps for example, Free + Awesome! Saves spending £150 on the Nokia kit as I can just get a GPS receiver that it will work with.

I've been downloading loads of maps to a 2GB SD card so i can use it without a wifi connection but the card became full way before I expected.



Because of the FAT file system and the fact that there's 60,000 files that are only like 200Kb at the most right?

Anyway round this? Please? I don't want to only be able to use 300meg of a 2 gig card.

Cheers

[Funkstar]

You can reduce the cluster size of the memory card. You will need to format it first though

[UKMuFFiN]

Ah cool. Is there anyway to find out what it currently is because isn't 512 bytes the default and the smallest? The options windows is giving me are:
Allocation Unit Size:
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16k
32k
64k

[Funkstar]

There might be an easier way, but go into widows disk defrag, analyse the drive and the view the report, it should tell you in the top pane.

Actually i think 32KB is the default allocation size, at least that is what the SD card for my camera is formatted as.

[UKMuFFiN]

Ah ha. Its 4k atm so Ill take it down to 512 bytes. Cheers.