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- From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: best disk partition characteristics for holding news?
- Message-ID: <930124.143446.5R8.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:34:46 MST
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- Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- andyross@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Rossmann) writes:
-
- > russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
- >
- >> the old version of disk compression software I have here insisted on 8k
- >
- > What software was that? Although Stacker may want to insist on 8K
-
- an old version (if you need to know `an old version of what' mail me - I
- have no reason to slander these people just because I didn't send in my
- registration card) (or is that libel? no matter)
-
- > clusters, it really isn't wasted space. If a file can fit in one or two
- > sectors (after compression), that's how much space will actually be
- > allocated in the Stacker volume. DOS will THINK it's using a full 8K, but it
- > isn't.
-
- I'd tested it by creating one-byte (well, far less than 512) files, and
- I kept getting `disk full' after not a lot of them - I wasn't going on
- the `estimated space available' thingies.
-
- at least, I'm pretty sure I was. it was about a year ago that I tried it,
- and I didn't save the log files or anything, but that's how I remember it...
- --
- Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
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