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From: alan@Apple.COM (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple HD SC Setup partitionning
Message-ID: <1580@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 89 17:49:00 GMT
References: <892@cnetlu.UUCP> <12994@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <24232@coherent.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <24232@coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>In article <12994@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> dean@venus.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>> 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.
>> .
>> In my case, my HD20Sc (internal on my SE) had a 917K free partition !  Apple
>> was robbing me of almost a megabyte.

Apple is NOT FULL OF BAD GUYS WHO WANT TO ROB YOU!  We're just a
company in business to change the world and make some money while we're
at it.

>If you have used a backup utility that performs an "image mode"
>backup/dump of your Mac file-system, you *MUST* restore it into a
>partition of at least equal size.  If you've dumped 21 megs of stuff to
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>a DC-2000 streaming tape, and then try to restore it into a partition
>that's only 20.9 megs in size... well, sorry, Charlie.

Actually -- you MUST restore to a partition which EXACTLY the same
size.  The file system really needs this to be true.
-- 

Alan Mimms                                      My opinions are generally
Communications Product Development Group        pretty worthless, but
Apple Computer                                  they *are* my own...
"The company has new jobs and Jobs has a new company" -- Harry Anderson