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- From: billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Why do I get less hd space under HPFS than FAT??!?!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.211605.12279@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:16:05 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.012601.18150@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Sender: billr@iplmail (Bill Richmond)
- Organization: Martin Marietta
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- In article <1992Jul22.012601.18150@sdf.lonestar.org>, mo@sdf.lonestar.org (Mohit Goyal) writes:
- |> Hello. I have a question I hope someone can answer.
- |>
- |> I have a 130meg Maxtor 7120A IDE hd.
- |>
- |> It formats out to 129.9 megs under DOS 5 & FAT.
- |> It formats out to 127.1 megs under OS/2 & HPFS.
- |>
- |> Does anyone know why I lose 3 megs if I use HPFS? I thought that
- |> HPFS would give me more space than FAT because it uses smaller
- |> sector sizes than FAT, or something like that.
- |>
- |> Please reply if you have an answer. Thanks.
- |>
- It was the other way around for me. I "gained" like 2 megs by
- using the HPFS...
-
- Bill
-