HD unusable free space

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From: John S. Hill
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 18:24

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Hi.  This is a question that was asked a few weeks ago, but was either never
responded to or I simply missed the answer.

When formatting a 40Mb Apple HD using the "Maximum Macintosh" option, why does
the Apple HD Setup program (v2.0 - came with sys 6.0.2) leave an unusable free
space at the end of the Macintosh partion?  Last night, I reformatted my drive
using the "custom" option and specified the entire drive (less driver).  Now
I have something like an extra 1900kb of disk space and it works fine.  Neither
Disk Express nor Disk First Aid had anything bad to say when I examined the
volume.  Is adding this extra space potentially a bad thing to do?

Please email any responses, as due to the volume in this group, I sometimes
miss postings.  Thanks.


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From: hill@petsd.UUCP (John S. Hill)
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Subject: HD unusable free space
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Date: 11 Sep 89 18:24:45 GMT
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