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From: weiss@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Minor Hard Disk Question...
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Date: 27 May 91 19:20:03 GMT
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In article <1991May27.081538.9810@marlin.jcu.edu.au> chma@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Antolovich) writes:
>Hi,
>   Something I noticed recently :-  I reformatted my Quantum 105 (3rd
>party so I fiddled with Apple's formatter :-).  Anyway I was just
>wondering why my 105Meg HD formats to 102Meg (Max partition size) then
>shows ~100,000K fress space when empty under System 6.0.7 and then
>~98Meg under System 7.0 (yes it goes back to 100,000K when I go back to

The second part of your question is bound to be a FAQ soon, so I'm posting
the response.  On Sys7, 1M=1024K, not 1000K.  Therefore, 98M=100,000K.

The first part is something that I have noticed a lot with Apple's Formatter.
For whatever reason, you get more disk space when you use SilverLining or
some other non-Apple driver.  I don't know why Apple won't use the entire disk.
Seems lame to me, but then again Apple has never been known for making the
BEST software, just SOME software.  That's why 3rd parties were invented :).
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