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From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Minor Hard Disk Question...
Message-ID: <1991May28.141229.22787@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 28 May 91 14:12:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: mmm.1991May28.141229.22787
References: <1991May27.081538.9810@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <2896@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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In article <2896@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> weiss@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes:
>
>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 :).

It seems that Apple likes to leave a bit of 'scratch' space on the far
end of the drive.  There was a tip posted or published in some magazine
about a year ago that detailed how to get rid of this little 'extra'
slice of space.

Basically, you back up the whole drive.  Then boot from the System Tools
disk. Start HD Setup and select the target drive.  Go into Custom
Partitioning.  You will see the current partition and a small bit of
gray at the top (bottom?) of the partition map.  Select the main
partition and DELETE it [NOTE: This is FATAL to all data on the
disk--think for a second before you do it].
  Now add a partition that covers the WHOLE drive.  Quit HD Setup,
reboot, and start restoring.

  TWO NOTES: The above is from memory--it's been a while, so do this at
  your own risk!  I'll take no responsibility for your actions, nor your
  taste in clothes :-)
    Also, on my SE/30, I regained about 1.5 meg of space on a 40 meg
    drive.  That made the Finder report 41,085K free.

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