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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Gnat-Mac and Disk space
Date: 1996/04/20
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Date: 1996-04-20T00:00:00+00:00
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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.