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From: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup and "Apple_Free?"
Message-ID: <11094@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 23:04:42 GMT
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Reply-To: jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell)
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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. 
<-----
<>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.
Alright!  So, can we, who don't CARE if our disk is the same number of bytes
as the Jones', grab that last almost-a-meg?  I'm poor and I'll swipe every
meg I can get!

	--Jon
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