Re: Where'd all that hard disk space go?

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00

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In article <3186908c.3484703@news.demon.co.uk>, Jim Fitzpatrick
<jim@jfitz.demon.co.uk> writes

>Any idea what may be going on here? He's checked for temporary files,
>swapfile size...i.e. all of the obvious things. I don't know the size
>of his clusters (oo-err! fnarr, fnarr!) but you'd need a hell of a lot
>of small files to spirit 250Mb away like that. Win95 will be taking up
>more room than Win3.11, and of course 1Gb is the unformatted capacity,
>but both of these things together should account for a few tens of
>megabytes, not hundreds.

Is that un low level formatted size, or is 1 gig the size of the un high
level formatted partition ?

Sounds as if you may be a victim of marketing numerologists.

J/.
-- 
John Beardmore

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