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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:45:27 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: DRDOS-6 SLACKSPACE
- Message-ID: <27800019@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpuamsa!franks
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- References: <709746269.F00001@csource.oz.au>
- Lines: 24
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- lele@violet.berkeley.edu (Sharachchandra Lele) writes:
-
- >In article <709746269.F00001@csource.oz.au> Brian.Bloomer@f386.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Brian Bloomer) writes:
- >>I'VE FOUND DRDOS-6 EXCELLENT HOWEVER,MY 40MG. HARDDISK COMPRESSED OUT TO 84
- >>MB'S, UNFORTUNATELY ONLY 56 MB'S CAN BE UTILISED 25 MG'S ARE TAKEN UP WITH 25
- >>MB'S OF SLACK SPACE. COULD ANYONE EXPLAIN SLACK SPACE AND IF POSSIBLE HOW TO
- >>OVERCOME THIS THAT IS,IF IT CAN BE.
- >>ANY ASSISTANCE WOULD BE VERY WELLCOME.
- >>
- >
- >I am not sure all the discussion about cluster size etc. has really
- >answered Brian's question, which is: if he has a 40MB harddisk, why
- >does he not get the full 80 MB indicated after compression?
- [explanation about *non* guaranteed 2:1 compression ratio deleted]
-
- I don't want to pick nits, but on June 30, i.e. only two days after
- Brian's posting, I already gave an explanation of "slack space" which is
- quite similar to the one you gave. The problem is that we do not know
- for sure what Brian means by slack space (i.e. as I mentioned it means
- different things to different people) and Brian never gave the
- clarification which I asked for. I will e-mail him (and you) a copy of
- this, so perhaps we may still find out what the heck he meant. :-)
-
- Frank Slootweg
-