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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Why do I get less hd space under HPFS than FAT??!?!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.004205.26735@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul22.012601.18150@sdf.lonestar.org> <1992Jul22.211605.12279@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:42:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.211605.12279@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond) 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...
-
- You are both correct.
-
- HPFS initially imposes a slightly higher overhead, but as soon as you
- start storing files you save space (because HPFS uses a smaller
- cluster size).
-
- It has been my experience that on anything other than small hard disks
- HPFS wins on disk capacity (with a "normal" mix of files on the
- system).
-
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