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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 ??
> Is that my hard disk driver (Silver Lining v5.6), the program (teachtext)
> or the Operating system (Sys7.5) ?
> 
> Same goes for a Microsoft word document.. The actual Document is 2048
> bytes, but it takes up 17K on disk.  That is wasteful..
> 
> BBedit takes up 33K for 896bytes of data..

Because when you partition a hard drive, you are allocated so many
'sections' and there is a minimum size of each section.  In your case the
size of a section is ~17k.  a section cannot be broken up between 2
files.  therefore a 1k file and a 16k file would still take up 1 17k
section on your drive each.
as to why yourbbedit file takes 2 sections for 900bytes of data, it is
probably due to the resource fork and all the stuff that isnt associated
with the actual data itself (icon and other goodies).
The only way to make your sections smaller is to format your drive into
seperate smaller partitions.
This is all caused by the way MacOS (HFS) disks are partitioned.  there
isnt much you can do except the above workaround.
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