🚀 go-pugleaf

"Rod Speed" <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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>Hyper <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message news:37C0B916.67BA455@snip.net...
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote in message ...
>>>>> Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote
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>>> I've flushed all your childish stuff. There isnt much left.
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>> I've printed this message and flushed it down the toilet, how's that?
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>Not good enough. If you cant manage any better than the
>childish stuff you have below, I'll be doing that with your crap too.
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>>>> If the large FAT32 20GB drive has all the files at the beginning of
>>>> the drive, within the first 5GB, and doesn't use the rest of the drive,
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>>> Doesnt happen.
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>> yes it does
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>Have fun explaining the drive I've currently booted. The figures
>arent that far from those above, 12GB drive, 6.5GB free. The
>files arent anything like all up the front of the drive, the space
>between the first and last file is about 50% free space, with
>huge holes, much bigger than the biggest files on the drive.
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>It was obviously in his scenario after the clean install, and its nothing
>like that now, so his claim is complete crap. Bugger all has been wiped
>from the drive since the clean install too. Never been defraged.
>

I'll try to explain it...temporary file creation and deletion,
naturally occurring...the growth of a swapfile beyond its set lower
limit, naturally occurring. Also, and this may be wrong, or at least
outdated...I THINK I recall that new file storage will possibly leave
alone open clusters from recently deleted files, as long as other
clusters are available...I may be off the mark on that. I'll admit to
having never taken a course in this stuff, having only done a lot of
reading and a bit of experimentation. I'm not at the moment a
professional in this field, but I've worked on a lot of computers for
friends and family, and also volunteered to help maintain the computer
system at the school my kids attend, and I do have some on-the-job
experience as well. It's entirely possible though, that I've picked up
a myth/fallacy or two along the way...one of the reasons why I'm here.

Tom