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In article <1992Sep10.165416.14551@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>Steven_P._Oliver@bearsden.UUCP (Steven P. Oliver) writes:
>
>>And you can tell how much space is on your hard drive by doing a dir
>>or by using FS by Norton. 
>
>A quick note on Norton's FS -- It will tell you that there is unused
>slack space on the Stacker drive, but what Norton doesn't realize is
>that Stacker actually re-uses this slack space during its compression.
>So any figures you see on slack space are reported by unaware software.
>Stacker drives have very little slack space at all.
>
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I don't understand how stacker does not have slack space...
Stacker does allow you to set the file block size, but it installs
at 8K blocks, right?  So if a file or it's last block is less than
8K, the rest is "slack", isn't it?   I could see Norton's FS getting
confused and being inaccurate in reporting slack space, but how does
Stacker fix the "slack" issue...?

Just wondering... (curious...)
Kris.
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