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In article <1993Jan6.041755.17923@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
}In article <C0AnCD.8K6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
}>Absolute last: Is there a way to make a file that takes up truly no
}>space other then name-space?  i.e. doesn't take up a minimum allocation
}>unit?

}Under FAT and HPFS, no, I don't think so, unless you're willing to
}break the rules.

}Under HPFS the minimum allocation is only 512 bytes, regardless of
}disk size.

Since I'm running OS/2 as write this, a quick test reveals the
following:

I'm running 4OS2 and as with a Unix shell, you can simply type

	>foobar

on a command line, which creates the file foobar to receive the
standard output of the null command (nothing, not surprisingly).

On both HPFS and FAT systems, this created a zero-length file,
BUT the free space in the HPFS filesystem was decremented by 512
while that of the FAT system was unchanged.  This evidence suggests
that the answer is yes for FAT but no for HPFS.

Larry
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