From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1bcd47f375ff4e03 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: gmckee@cloudnine.com (Gary McKee) Subject: Re: re: Gnat-Mac and Disk space Date: 1996/04/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 150514278 references: organization: McKee Consulting (Consulting in Ada) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , emery@grebyn.com (David Emery) wrote: > The solution to this is to use disk driver software that partitions > the drive. I'm currently using 135mb partitions (with a "double partition" > for all my Mac applications) on a 1GB drive. (I use Silverlining for > disk driver/partitioning, but most good disk driver packages for the > Mac support multiple partitions.) (I selected 135mb as the size of > a EZ135 cartridge, should I ever buy one, I know that I can completely > backup/restore a file system (without fancy backup programs) to a single > removable disk. -------------------------------------------------------- David, The Mac OS addressing scheme is sensitive to the ubiquituous "powers of two" syndrome. Consequently, your minimum file size will drop significantly if you reduce your partitions below the "magic" 128k barrier. I ran partitions for awhile at 127kb and the files were smaller. I also took about a 5% performance hit running partitions so I reformatted my hard drives and traded disk space for increased performance (albeit, only a small improvement). Your mileage may vary (YMMV). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary McKee McKee Consulting gmckee@cloudnine.com P. O. Box 3009 voice: (303) 795-7287 Littleton, CO 80161-3009 WWW home page => --------------------------------------------------------------------