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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1998
Michael McMurdie, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Michel Berhan, San Jose, CA (US);
Roxio, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and a system are provided to improve storage space utilization in a file management system with a fixed number of clusters without increasing the number of volumes visible to the user. This is accomplished by merging together multiple logical partitions created on a physical volume into a single virtual partition. This allows for the use of smaller, more efficient logical partitions while still presenting to the user/application a single large volume. As a result, the user is able to deal with a single volume, greatly reducing the burden of remembering on which volume each file is located, but, at the same time, the user is able to reap the benefits of the efficient storage allocation deriving from a reduced cluster size.