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- From: rmf@chopin.cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer)
- Subject: Re: HUGE disks and minimum file size
- In-Reply-To: Glenn Henshaw's message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:48:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <RMF.92Nov9143202@chopin.cs.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Columbia Univ.
- References: <bruce-b-061192140954@130.216.34.254> <1992Nov6.194833.6234@bnr.ca>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:32:02 GMT
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- I experienced this problem with my Seagate Wren V (315Mb) drive. When I
- re-partitioned the drive to a 120M and a 195M volume, I regained about 17Mbytes
- of space! [On the other hand, I have lots of program source lying around, which
- means many small files, so fragmentation was fairly high.]
-
- I also think that the user should have some control over the min allocation
- clump size when partitioning. It's crazy to *have* to break a nice big drive
- into a whole bunch of small ones just to avoid wasting *large* amounts of
- space. As a better, long-range solution, a more reasonable allocation policy is
- in order. [Apple, are you listening?]
-
- Now, for a follow-up:
-
- After the re-partitioning, I soon had a machine crash which damaged the boot
- partition. The system booted to a floppy-question-mark icon (no bootable
- volumne), and after booting from a floppy, said the drive was unreadable.
-
- I have never before in 5 years of running this Mac II, 1 and 1/2 years of it
- with this drive, experienced a crash which took the hard drive with it.
-
- Now, my question is this: is a partitioned drive on a Mac more susceptible to
- being damaged than a non-partitioned one? [I can think of several reasons why
- this might be the case, but I'm looking for empirical answers, not theoretical
- ones.]
-
- [Note: I'm fairly confident the drive medium itself is ok; I gave it the old
- read/write every sector test before partitioning.]
- --
-
- -- Bob
-