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From: dean@venus.Berkeley.EDU (R. Drew Dean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup partitionning
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Date: 28 Apr 89 02:16:44 GMT
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In article <892@cnetlu.UUCP> ranson@cnetlu.UUCP (Ranson) writes:
.
.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
.    ...!mcvax!inria!cnetlu!ranson (ranson@cnetlu.fr)

In my case, my HD20Sc (internal on my SE) had a 917K free partition !  Apple
was robbing me of almost a megabyte.  I found though, that I had to remove
my Mac partition and make a new one to expand it....I then reformatted the
drive, and lo! Apple's formatter had reinstalled the 917K free partition !
So, to get more space on your drive, use the custom partition, and do _not_
follow by reformatting....Also, the second time I left a 53K free partition,
as that was the smallest I could get, figuring that maybe Apple's software
requires a free partition for some strange reason, so I only gained 800+Kb,
but that's still > 1 floppy (not high-density)


Drew Dean
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