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dags@netspace.net.au (Darryl Harvey) writes:

>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..

You are using a rather large disk.  Repartition it into smaller pieces.


>Does anyone know why this is happening and/or a good cure for it (please
>don't say use spacesaver or diskdoubler !)

Yes, we know why this is happening.  Almost everyone who gets a new
large disk complains about it.  It has to do with partition size.
What worked fine with ~100MB disks and smaller stops working so well
on 1GB and larger disks.  That is, with your previous disk, you
probably had one partition.  You'll be reasonably well served if you
divide your new disk into n partitions each with the size you're
familiar with.

What's going on is that the disk files are made up of blocks.  This
much I expect is not news.  However, these blocks are not allocated
singly, but in "buckets", which are groups of blocks.  There can be
only so many buckets per volume, so the larger the volume gets, the
larger the buckets get.  If you want smaller buckets, make smaller
volumes by partitioning.
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