From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Gnat-Mac and Disk space
Date: 1996/04/20
Date: 1996-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.829975044@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: emery-1904962024330001@line149.nwm.mindlink.net
Dave Emery said
"It's a real quirk of the MacOS file system that the minimum amount
of disk space used by a small file is a function of the size of the
file system/partition. Apparently MacOS divides the disk into 1/N
parts, where N is CONSTANT. Thus, a 1GB disk drive (single partition)
will use 4 times as much space for a 10-byte file as a 250mb file
partition."
This is of course a quirk exactly shared by DOS and any other system
using the FAT formats of DOS.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-19 0:00 Gnat-Mac and Disk space David Emery
1996-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-04-20 0:00 ` Gary McKee
1996-04-21 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
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