Re: File storage waste !

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From: mooooo!
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 08:31

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In article <3gi29c$f03@news.utdallas.edu>, greer@utdallas.edu (Dale M
Greer) wrote:

> In article <dags-2601951805090001@dialup-12.insane.apana.org.au>,
> dags@netspace.net.au (Darryl Harvey) wrote:
> 
> > If I save a teachtext file that is 396 bytes, why does it register as 33K
>                                                                         ^^^
> > when saved to disk ??
> 
> Hah!  Wait till you get a 4 Terabyte drive with a minimum file size of
> 32 Megabytes!  Of course, by the time such a drive is available, Apple
> will have come out with a file system that won't have such problems.
> 
The current file system is also limited to a 4 gig max size for a partition.
oh well.

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