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From: davide@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson;E208)
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Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup and "Apple_Free?"
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Date: 18 Jun 91 11:01:07 GMT
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In <1991Jun14.092538.5480@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> ym3y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu 
writes:
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> My LC w/40 mb hard drive turned out to have 16k devoted to a partition
>for the mac driver (ok, that makes sense), 40,000k devoted to Macintosh HD
>(obviously), and 992k devoted to Apple_Free(!) This "Apple_Free" thing also
>appears not to be used, judging from the way its presented graphically, but
>that seems open to interpretation. 
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>So my question is, what can I do with these 992k? Can I just expand the
>Macintosh HD partition into them or are they actually taboo?

The Apple_Free partition is a way of making physically different drives appear 
logically the same.  For example the old 5.25 inch HD40s had a litte more 
space than the later 3.5 inch HD40s but unless you have fiddled with the 
partitioning they will appear the same size because HD setup allocates a spare 
partition to fill up the space beyond a standard size.

Dave
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