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From: ranson@cnetlu.UUCP (Ranson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Apple HD SC Setup partitionning
Message-ID: <892@cnetlu.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 08:22:22 GMT
Reply-To: ranson@cnetlu.UUCP (Ranson)
Organization: C.N.E.T. Lannion 22301 LANNION FRANCE
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When a hard disk is initialized with Apple HD SC Setup using the default
partitionning, this program does not seem to use the whole disk! If you
look at the detailed description of the partitions, you will find that an
extra ("Apple_free") partition is created, that uses about 5% of the disk.

Why is it so? One can easily use custom partitionning to get this space
back, but are there good reasons not to do it? The lost space is 665K on
a 20Mb disk, and probably more on larger disks. I guess most users would find
a use for that.

    Daniel Ranson
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